MBD

Having put the subject of our Mom to rest in the last episode, there were still a few things nagging at us. Well, one of us happened to be on the road to ease the lingering uneasiness. 

And there were some tough things learned and some even more enigmatic feelings that followed. 

We think we can look back from where we are in the world and see the string that goes all the way back to the beginning and find our way home. But sometimes it knots and frays and the past is unclear.

Such is life in the present. Unraveling strings to better see ourselves and the ties that bind.

We conclude our journey along the meandering path we've taken with our mother over the years.

Often times it was exactly what one would think. And often times it wasn't. It was unique to say the least. For us, anyway. For two boys who grew up in small-town Louisiana. 

So, at the end of this excavation, we come to a realization that our mother is a person with wrongs and rights in her, just trying to get by. Like all of us. 

 

https://youtu.be/ZY6HgFyoupw

https://youtu.be/LhH3d37OYyk

https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B008EGV4BQ&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_-u6-EbX00A7B6

Finally. We talk about our Mother. 

We recount her early upbringing in Peru and her coming of age in New Jersey. 

We talk about how she met our father in the Army and what Bastrop, LA was like for her as a Yankee in Confederate land. 

We talk about her second marriage and how much happiness that brought our family before the uprooting begins. 

 

https://youtu.be/1_I4WgBfETc

https://youtu.be/x4lXnLJ_gZg 

https://youtu.be/lHdXQAQHjd8

We conclude our ruminations on being separated in so many forms and instances. 

We talk about coming back to Louisiana in our late teens and what it was like to cut the strings of parental control, as we entered two different rites of passages. 

And we come full circle in our own relationship as brothers. 

 

Below are some links to a few things we mentioned in the pod.

 

https://www.marvel.com/comics/issue/17809/west_coast_avengers_1985_67

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qrb4MsD0zdw

Rolling along memory lane again. 

This time with an intent to draw parallels from past separations to our time now living in a pandemic. 

We've all been asked to isolate. Separate from each other. It's been hard for a lot of us, to learn how to live a new way. But there are places in our past that we can draw from and remember that this too shall pass.

We remember. 

We recall our first memories and what it was like to grow up in small-town Louisiana. Where the weather is muggy and the recollection just as cloying. 

We discuss religion and how the church molded us, or bored us, in those first days of spiritual and cultural awakenings.

Welcome to the very first episode of My Brother's Deeper.