Mother

Strange accidents.

And Then We Saw the Daughter of the Minotaur (1953) by Leonora Carrington

Today is Mother’s Day. I am a mother, and my mother is still alive, so I have a lot to celebrate. On the other hand, what makes a mother so special, really, beyond having created an entire human from scratch and then pushed it out of her body? A mother is a miracle, but she still c…