Found this photo strip on Deirdre's bulletin board last night and decided that this adequately captured motherhood for me. I think that Deirdre was 3 in the photos.
In honor of her 20th birthday, I have to turn to Shakespeare, since that is common lground. There is alot that isn't suitable. My child isn't ungrateful, treacherous or unloved, so King Lear is thankfully out.
In stead I turned to Hamlet, not exactly a happy play, but Polonius, who was never my favorite character, still gave some reasonable advice.
So here is the whole speech that Polonius gives to his departing son, Laertes
There,-my blessing with you!
And these few precepts in thy memory See thou character. -Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act.
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; but do not dull thy palm with entertainment
of each new-hatched, unfledged comrade. Beware of entrance to a quarrel; but being in, bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice: Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, but not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy: For the apparel oft proclaims the man.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day,Thou canst not then be false to any man.
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