Once strong but gentle, they have mopped up childish tears and soothed cuts and scrapes. They have cleaned and scrubbed. They have dug the fields and tilled the soil. They have sewn the family garments, curtains, bedspreads and even made carpets from rags. They made my dolls clothes and my wedding dress. They have knitted our jerseys, and gloves and scarves. Now so delicate and fragile and helpless ...
When you 1st posted this I thought all the care you would have received from them. Similar to my thoughts when helping my mother by chsnging her stoma bag...she must have changed a tonne of my dirty nappies....
