Suddenly, through birthing a daughter, a woman finds herself face to face not only with an infant, a little girl, a woman-to-be, but also with her own unresolved conflicts from the past and her hopes and dreams for the future....

 As though experiencing an earthquake, mothers of daughters may find their lives shifted, their deep feelings unearthed, the balance struck in all relationships once again off kilter.   
~Elizabeth Debold and Idelisse Malave

I love you

People usually say about me that I am an intensely passionate emotional and sentimental person.  I am!  Today because I am all of these things I am writing about this morning as Montana and I awoke to go greet the sunrise.  It was so good to have her by my side again.  Even if it is only a short time.  I love her so much and I miss her as much as I would miss my breath.

We set off bleary eyed at the sight of light in the sky and jumped into the car and headed for the beach near us to stand and gaze together in amazement and the dawning of the new day.  What a wonderful time for me to be able to explain to her the benefits of sun gazing and the myths surrounding the practice.

She was open as she knows that I have said sunscreen is bad and that the sun does get a bad rap.  What a lovely morning it was.

Image by Mezza - Montana at Urunga Feb 4th 2012