Friday, September 27, 2024

Our mother

Our mother was many things over the course of her lifetime. Not all of them were pretty. 

But as a young thing, she certainly could cut a figure. Smart, elegant, arrogant, a ‘cliffee, she had a lot going for her, and that photo effectively conveys it. 

It was also the era of another Harvardian, John F. Kennedy, so the aroma was in the air. My parents thought they were pretty hot stuff, and maybe they were. “It was a heady time,” was a favorite phrase of my mother’s. I’m certain it was.

Phyllis Munro Ferguson Seidel (1938-2024), circa 1963