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Shed the Load and Free Yourself
The Morning Standard
|January 05, 2025
December is synonymous with celebrations, reunions and astronomical airfares. I experienced all of them but in an unexpected, unusual way.
It was one that redefined my priorities and offered invaluable life lessons. Early in the month, at 4.30 pm, I received a voice note from my daughter in London who needed me immediately because of a health scare. By 6.30 pm my tickets to the UK were booked, and by 11.30 pm I'd left for the airport.
Such is the instinctive pull of motherhood when a child is in need. If hanging on to the wing of that airplane was required, I'd have done it to reach her.
The next few weeks were a whirlwind.
This story is from the January 05, 2025 edition of The Morning Standard.
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