Happy Mother’s Day!
This month’s article is a couple of quick thoughts on the nature of, and need for, Mother. Notice I spelled that with a capital “M”, because the Mother I’m talking about is the archetypal mother, not the one who used to tell you to eat the runny eggs. That’s the corporeal approximation of Mother, who was hopefully a decent enough version such that the primal qualities of Mother-safety, validation, containment, holding, love-came through, despite (or perhaps as channeled by) the funky human qualities of mom. But whether that was the case for you or not, the need for Mother, meaning the need for those basic functions of mothering, is not negotiable. We really do need our Mother.