From the blog www.blissanddrumming.com, this post: http://blissanddrumming.com/2017/09/in-praise-of-great-women/ is read by Clementine. She also refers to www.awakeningthetrueself.com.

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When I was a teen, my mother’s positive outlook drove me crazy. I was reading Rimbaud and Camus and Dostoevsky, and life seemed so much wider and darker than she knew. I thought I knew so much better with my dark vision of the world. Now, I only aspire to her way of being, this light and joyful way of meeting every moment in life and seeing no point in dwelling in the darkness. In times of difficulty, I see her batten down, get ferocious. When she was ill many years ago, I saw her jaw set and meet the illness with a kind of steel will. Then, after it was over, this happy spirit bounced back and prevailed. She is happy at her center. What else could you wish in a life?