{"id":6474,"date":"2014-05-08T23:01:50","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T03:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/blissblog\/?p=6474"},"modified":"2014-05-08T23:01:50","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T03:01:50","slug":"passing-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/blissblog\/2014\/05\/passing-by.html","title":{"rendered":"Passing By"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Photo: I have been noticing lately how much my hands are starting to look like my mother's hands. The skin feels thinner and more translucent. Wonder it's all that transparency I am experiencing. I feel like she is a daily presence in my life even though she joined my dad in 2010 (he passed in 2008). I miss our morning phone calls on my way to work and I tap into her guidance often. I find myself sounding so much like her which is a good thing. Mirror mirror on the wall....I am my mother after all. (This 'glamour girl shot was taken when she was 18, I think) &lt;3\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent-a-lga.xx.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-prn2\/t1.0-9\/q71\/s480x480\/10259998_10203721915066549_8838484384075790488_n.jpg\" width=\"378\" height=\"504\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Time is fleeting, as I have experienced in the 5 and half decades I have lived on this planet (in this incarnation at least). Some of those I love are no longer in body, but the connection is inicstricably enmeshed in my bone marrow. As Mothers&#8217; Day is approaching, I am paying closer attention to thoughts about my mother Selma who passed in 2010, when she joined my father on the Other Side. Even though I achingly miss her physical presence at times, I feel her so strongly around me. She&#8217;s the one who I call on for the same kind of guidance I sought throughout my life. Stable, reliable, incredibly wise. She too had &#8216;imposter syndrome&#8217;, since she never saw herself as the confident go-getter, make stuff happen kind of woman that she truly was. Perceiving herself as shy, she hid it well. She seemed to be the go-to person in the neighborhood, the one who the kids could talk to. We had a &#8216;helping hand&#8217; sign in our front window, indicating that ours was a &#8216;safe house&#8217; for them to go to\u00a0if they were being followed by strangers or bothered by bullies.<\/p>\n<p>As I age (well and gracefully, I hope), I find myself looking and sounding like her; saying things she would have said. I have the same mannerisms and sometimes step back and see myself AS her.\u00a0 I have been noticing lately how much my hands are starting to look like my mother&#8217;s hands. The skin feels thinner and more translucent. Wonder if it&#8217;s all that transparency I am experiencing.\u00a0 Mirror mirror on the wall&#8230;.I am my mother after all. This &#8216;glamour girl&#8217; shot was taken when she was 18, I think. Such a long time and such a short way from there (1942) to here. Gone in a flash.<\/p>\n<p>This morning, I was listening to my favorite radio station <a title=\"WXPN\" href=\"http:\/\/xpn.org\" target=\"_blank\">(WXPN)<\/a>\u00a0while heading to work. Songs were being played in honor of Mothers&#8217; Day. Tears streamed down my face as I\u00a0heard a piece by Philly local singer songwriter <a title=\"Andrew Lipke\" href=\"http:\/\/andrewlipke.com\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Lipke<\/a>. In it, he highlights the importance of acknowledging the passage of time so that we don&#8217;t waste a precious moment with those who so enrich our lives.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Only Passing By\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/2RedVJ4jgLk\" target=\"_blank\">Passing By-Andrew Lipke<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time is fleeting, as I have experienced in the 5 and half decades I have lived on this planet (in this incarnation at least). Some of those I love are no longer in body, but the connection is inicstricably enmeshed in my bone marrow. 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