Questions of a Modern Day Mother

I embrace my daughter and soothe her as only my touch can do. I assure her that I am there, fully attentive, this time, to her, learning with her. She smiled and started to lean her head on me. How wonderfully forgiving children are. I started to think – maybe this is my cue, maybe I can again fill up the shoes that I hung on the sill in my quest for me.