Opinion: My mom believed I could do anything. That was better than any participation trophy.
By Joe Scarborough Joe Scarborough Bio Follow March 12 at 6:42 PM My mother’s memory slowly slipped away over the past decade. Bit by bit, darkness blotted out the names, faces and celebrations that had filled her extraordinary life. By the time she died a week ago, the scraps of Mom’s memories had narrowed to an old address in Rome, Ga., the phone number of her 89-year-old sister and the faces of her three children.
Despite her intensity, my first memory of Mom is her comforting appearance at my side as a midnight thunderstorm roared above our neighborhood in suburban Atlanta. She sweetly sang “Where Is Love?” from the musical “Oliver!” and then told me how reciting the 23rd Psalm aloud would bring me peace. It didn’t at age 4, but the presence of my mother always did.
But regardless of the challenge, Mom always supplied the blessed assurance that I could outrun, outthink and outhustle anyone I came up against. Somehow, she convinced me that her belief in my abilities was unique, and it wasn’t until her funeral that I learned that Mom’s remarkable confidence was directed in the same way at her older children.
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