Either a mother and daughter know each other very well or they are strangers.

Life is sometimes amazingly fragile, but some lives are frighteningly strong.

You're paved in my heart like an old road. Like the pebbles in a pebble field, dirt in dirt, dust in dust, cobwebs in cobwebs.

I had no way of knowing where it began or where it ended. Only that it flowed without restraint.

How far back does one's memory of someone go?

Even though nobody knew that you were in my life, you were the person who brought a raft at every rapid current and helped me cross that water safely. I was happy that you were there. I came to tell you I was able to travel through my life because I could come to you when I was anxious, not when I was happy.

Life demands sacrifice and difficult decisions from us at every moment. Living does not mean passing through a void of nothingness but rather through a web of relationships among beings, each with their own weight and volume and texture.