Dear Cali Chica:

“She never taught me what true love and respect was”- like other animals whose young need the mother for their survival, and the social animals that we are, we are born loving of our mothers, and later, loving others. It is mothers like yours and mine who take away our natural loving nature, robbing us from  our loving nature. We are not taught love, we are born loving.

“What is there to emulate?”- not team work- your mother and you were not a team, your mother and your father were not a  team, that you did not witness or  experience.

“I Cali Chica am in fact the mother- the mother of myself”- a different kind of mother, you can develop this new-mother voice, an honest, empathetic voice  to replace the other mother voice.

“I have to see my mother for who she is, the lies. So I may feel less/no GUILT in acting the way I want”- maybe you can tell me about this guilt. If you want, you can tell me about this guilt as little CC, resume the exercise?

I will soon be away from the computer for a while.

anita