As Facebook fills up with truly lovely wishes and reminiscing of beautiful mothers this one goes out to the mothers and the children of mothers who were ill prepared to be mothers. The mothers who would rather not have become mothers. The mothers who were wounded and knew no other way. The mothers who resented and mothers who were ill. The mothers who lost themselves and maybe never found themselves again. The mothers who died too early. To the children of mothers who may have known this too late or knew it quite well all along. Happy Mother's Day to the Mother of Invention required to build our lives. May we all know healing.