Ghost Mother

Ghost Mother

When the thread breaks, begin again.

A letter to the women who create in fragments and are ready to remember the whole

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Jeannie Ewing
Dec 01, 2025
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Me holding Sarah as an infant | Spring 2013 | Photo credit: Ani Wallach

We create in fragments. There exists a quiet ache of lost continuity between our thoughts and between seasons of care. But even when we believe we’ve fallen behind, something ancient in us is still stitching the threads of that tapestry, though the floss may be thin and frail and fra…

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