I’m sharing today in part as a tribute and in part as a promise—the life of my mother Janet Barnes, with her unstoppable spirit, determined life and belief that there’s nothing beyond the determination.

When mother lived as the young woman unable to get out of bed, get dressed, use the restroom, scratch an itch or do most of the things we all take for granted, she used her mind—she used her mind to decide what she believed, to focus on this. She trained her brain.

I think at some point in her last years she told me she thought she had more wrinkles in her brain than anybody in the universe because she used it so much.

I'm sharing here my tribute  to mother written the first mother's day following her death. I titled it Wabi-Sabi Mother.  You can see the full article on the website.

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