Sail away!

I often have this discussion with people, about endings, and beginnings. I love the topic. I have always had a rather significant attraction to death. The endings, of relationships, cycles, movies, books, journeys and gatherings. They're so intense and powerful, just equally as beginnings, all beginnings, and births and babies, particularly those. 

I had this conversation recently with Yasmina, it came up as she was casually expressing how she likes the middle. It is of course very symbolic, she loves the flow, to be in it, whereas I have always loved to mend and shape things, in charge of where I'm going, how I'm staying, and when to leave, literally and figuratively. 

We had so many clashes in the past, these days we have reached a stage where we learn how to co-live through our differences. She was born in the middle of summer, and I in the middle of winter. She is at her highest in summer, when I'm at my lowest usually, and vice versa. Our summers and winters are something, but we feel good in the knowing that this time of the year, though it feels like a new start, we are both flowing in the journey that puts us together as mother and daughter. We are sailing away, it is the middle, but also the start and the finishing too, in lots of ways.

Happy new year to us!