Tuesday: Life with Mother

A good life can seem much too short. A bad life can seem much too long. Whether one has lived a long life or a short life is rather relative and in context of time as perhaps infinite, any life is short.

Fortunately for most that walk this earth life is filled with good times and with bad times. When times are good we all know just hang on things are going to change. But, happily, when times are bad we should also remember to hang on things are going to change.


I truly like the concept that immortality is achieved when one is remembered. As long as one person holds the memory of one who has passed over in one’s heart one continues to exist in consciousness.


There is a difference in how we are remembered that makes the real difference. We might read about Napoleon or Alexander the Great but do we hold them in our hearts? No we only hold them in history books.


Before my mother passed over she only asked me to do one thing and that was to write a book about her and her life. I did this. The book is called Life with Mother: A Journey of Love, Death and Rebirth. In her own way Mother wanted to be remembered and to have some claim to immortality because to her books brought people back to life. She also wanted to live to be a hundred and be a jelly jar pin up girl on the Morning Show on TV. She didn’t make it to 100 but she will be remembered by many who choose my book to help them through the process of caring for a dying parent. Next May 8th Mother would have been 100 maybe they will invite me to be on that morning show and I can hold up a picture with her on a Shmucker’s jelly jar. She would like that.



Myriam Maytorena, M.Ed.
http://lifewithmother.com/