Brigit's Flame "All Stars", Week 1

[lacombe]

Checking my closet right now, I can see that despite my deliberate and pointed neglect, I still have two of the facecloths left that my mother and her husband gave to me on my 18th Christmas. I keep them because I hate the thought of wasting something useful -- so I wait until I can find a good excuse to throw them out

Comments

[murphpolo13]

Your mother and my mother should get together and go bowling.

<3

[lacombe]

People in my family are very competitive. ;-) Could your mom take the heat?

[murphpolo13]

(Good to hear from you, by the way. What you're doing is very hard and very brave.)

[lacombe]

::: waves :::

Nice to hear from you too, my friend. :-) And thank you.

[desert_rose]

Reading this makes me want to hug you.

Thank you for sharing your honest feelings about your Mom.

I want to write more, but I think it's better I save it for when we talk.

I am glad you are participating in the contest- I have missed your writing, both fiction and personal!

Love you, Jacques.

[lacombe]

Thanks, Marion. This time, I thought I'd write for myself and see if anyone else wanted to come along for the share.

I appreciate you reading it.

[desert_rose]

I'm glad you did. The personal entries are powerful in the feelings and thoughts shared and are interesting to read as they give the reader a chance to get to know the author.

I'm proud of you for doing this!

[lacombe]

Absolutely! That's why I'll be eliminated this week. ;-)

Really. I just wrote for myself. If anyone likes it or got something from reading it, I'm glad.

[lacombe]

So far, yeah. I mean, we'll go out to breakfast or something, but when it really counts, or she needs to make some kind of sacrifice on her side, it's not there.

Even little things. Like when I was big on photography. I came over for an entire day once, and I wanted to show her some of the photos I'd taken, but she didn't have time, she said. Same thing when I began building websites -- she had no time to look at them. I wanted to share things I was proud of, you know?

Fortunately, I have one example of what not to do, and one of what I _should_ do. My grandparents are stellar, so I can learn from mistakes as well as things done right.

My fiancee has a grandmother that is manipulative as well -- it can be extremely toxic for the whole family.

[aquarius_galuxy]

I'm sorry I can't help you there -- I'm surprised that you kinda put up with your mother for so long! Most of my siblings (and me) have already stopped talking to my mother. =\

[lacombe]

Why have you done that?

[aquarius_galuxy]

She is the very essence of cynism and negativity =\ kind of like poison, really

[lacombe]

:-) And you're pretty much the opposite, fortunately.