Thursday 13th March - role models

 Thought for the day; who were my role models? Who has kept me steady when I was having a wobble?

I think my main influence has to be my mother. Her incredible insights into people and children helped me when I became a parent. She had so much understanding of what was important,  and what wasn't. 

Later, I learned so juch from watching the huge effort she made to remain cheerful for the last few years of her life after a severe stroke robbed her of all movement, of any kind whatsoever, on her left hand side. Not to mention the almost constant pain from phantom nerve signals to her stroke damaged brain.

She is the example I keep before me whenever I can feel a bit of a 'pity me, poor me' coming on. She wasn't perfect by any means, but then, who is? That, too, is helpful when I'm having 'a moment '!

So here's some of her favourite music. She constantly listened to a recording of the Dinu Lupatti recital at the Besançon Music Festival while she was in hospital recovering and going through rehab, especially the Schubert Impromptu in G flat

Other news? None... a bit of filing, some correspondence, a short look around the garden, my new slippers arrived, I cooked lunch (meat loaf), and supper (macaroni cheese), a lot of sitting around reading,  and thecday is done!

We're setting the alarm early tonight, in the hope of seeing the partial eclipse of the supermoon shortly after 6.15 am. Skies and clouds permitting...