Virtuosity Inspired

  A mother is more than a mother she is a beacon of light.  Some people say we should not celebrate Mother’s Day, but in actuality there should be a daily celebration of motherhood.  It is more than pushing out babies.  There is the constant caring, and nurturing of a mother.  Your children become the most important thing in your life.   My mother was a very great woman.  She was beautiful in my eyes.  I should say she was a hero.  I loved my mother for playing the role of mother and father. She was an example of strength.  Many women today are defining motherhood in a different light.  Some women are choosing to be single mothers.  They have made a choice to parent without the aid of a father.  Now that is true strength. I am a single mother though not by choice have found the strength, and knowledge to raise four children on my own.  In my case I don’t have the village that most people have.   In ligh...

This is a story of a mother of four who suffered from extreme depression.  It’s almost like she lived in a glass house in the middle of a thunderstorm.  She had taken a vow of silence in her life to keep everything together.  In layman’s terms she had to lie like everything was okay when it was really falling apart.  Getting out of bed was a challenge.  She just lay in bed for hours daydreaming, and night dreaming about the perfect life.  She had dreams of the perfect husband, house, and life.  In reality things were rather empty, and the opposite of what she felt in her heart.  There was no supportive husband, or family.  She was there alone.  She said “I write from a lonely place .”  I journal to ease my pain.  I express my feelings from a dying soul, an empty spirit, and a vessel with very little in it.  Deep in her heart she knows that no one understands her pain.  That silent cry that she wishes everybody can her...