I’ll begin this by wishing everyone a Happy Mother’s Day. This goes out to all of the mothers, grandmothers, and sons and daughters of those mothers. May it be a special day.
My mother passed away the day after her 74th birthday in 2012. A year that I consider one of the worst years of my life. Between her death and something that occurred on Mother’s Day that year changed my life.
Perhaps the only thing that kept moving forward in life was that I was a caregiver for my Grandmother. A few years earlier, when my father’s health was failing, I made a promise that I would take care of her. He was her only child and I the eldest grandchild. It was a promise I kept until her death at 100 in 2015.
While I was her care giver the art of photography, which I ventured into in 2011, grew as did my desire to document the world around me through my photography. I began my photographic project “Delmarva Scenes” during those years and upon her death continued it to this day.
Today I try to live one day at a time. We don’t know how long we have. Or how long we have with those that we love.
It’s probably very fitting that today it is raining. Tears from the skies for those mothers who we are no longer able to say Happy Mother’s Day.