Happy Mother's Day to My Dear Mum

Music: Fugue #8 from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2. By J.S. Bach. Sequenced by Yo Tomita .

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Happy Mother’s Day to my dear Mum, Author of my personality: Pleased, I hope, with what you read in me; Pleased, I hope, with episodes to come. Yet now I, too, would get some pleasure from Making you the book in which I see, Of all the players in my family, The central character, whom I would plumb. How beautiful to move in that direction! Each to each a separate source of pleasure, Reading in the other’s happiness, ‘Mid much description, underlying love. So would we deepen the connection, Discovering new passages to treasure As we follow time towards tenderness, Yearning for what years unread will prove.