‘You should tell your story,’ they said.
Of course as the late, formidable Nadine Gordimer, once said in an interview on Radio 702: ‘Yes, everyone has a story, but not everyone should tell it.’
But you, asked for it. So here it is, told through the eyes of all these parts of me:
Moms: Plural form because there are seven offspring. (five by blood, two by marriage)
Mab: Queen Mab is a fairy from literature who apparently drove her chariot up people’s noses and into their brains make them dream about what they wished for. Such vehicular invasion is gross; dreaming is not.
Martha: Patron saint of servants and cooks. See ‘Moms’ above.
Maeve: Queen Maeve is a Celtic hero who was rather an independent lass and an ancient feminist in my view.
Mistresses of Education: teachers, masters of our craft. See ‘Moms’, ‘Mab,’ ‘Martha’ and ‘Maeve.’
by Colleen Bentley
