Wow! I think you captured her grace, movement, strength, and feminity perfectly... what a beautiful balance💃💗 Your drawings are always exceptional, Strega.

It's interesting isn't it... the way in which we seem both to emulate and reflect our parents and yet still strive to reflect something else from within us that is new and independent. We can't escape the DNA and common genetics or the voices from our childhood that we carry through life, and we find ourselves thinking...

My gosh, I sound just like my parents! 🤣

I wonder sometimes if this is simply because parenting comes with so many common themes but I also hear specific things from my parents in me that are unique to what they said or how they reacted or responded to life situations. It gives pause for thought, doesn't it? We want to break the cycle of destructive behaviour, learned, mimicked, or resulting... and we want to emulate all the positive traits that we were privileged to witness and experience. And finally, break free with some independent and new behaviours borne of our own new experiences.

I read an interesting article yesterday about feto-maternal microchimerism and am trying to build a post around the theme... It's interesting how cells transfer between mother and baby in utero and some remain for decades in the other's body tissue, bones, brain, organs etc as distinct cells that continue to replicate and actually help to fight illnesses on behalf of their new host 💗 So in some ways we carry our moms, especially with us through life and she carries us... through life. Something quite special - still linked long after birth has occurred.

Always a pleasure visiting your blog 💗💃😘 !LUV !Hug !LADY

ps: Hope you had a lovely time visiting with your parents xx