deep and intrinisc.....

ok, so i spent the day in lexington at a breastfeeding workshop.......somewhat of a work requirement but made more tolerable by entertaining presenters.....i was impressed by the 2 speakers.......for their witty repartee as well as for their passion for the art and promotion of breastfeeding.....a personal reflection told by the lady who spoke on three of the four topics of the day is worth repeating, as it spoke to me on many levels.......seems when she was younger and still nursing one of her children, she happened to drive several of her older relatives to visit yet another relative at a nursing home. After a cursory visit in the room, she opted to leave the rest to chat in private, and she retreated to the lobby/gathering area with her child. A resident soon sat down beside her, and cooed and waved at her baby.......when she did speak, the woman pointed at the younger person seated nearby, and said...'this person comes to visit me...i don't know her, but she seems nice'......at which the younger person waved and said....' i am her daughter margaret......mom, you remember, don't you- i am margaret'.......the reference to the person she didn't know happened a few more times.....at which point the workshop speaker had started to nurse her baby (discreetly) and asked the resident if she had breastfed her children.....'oh, yes, i nursed all three of my children......the youngest margaret didn't want to give it up.....even when she was 4...if she saw me milking the cows she would pull up in my lap and want me to stop with the milking and to let her nurse.....it took me forever to get her to quit nursing.....'......our speaker was audibly moved when she noted that margaret, sitting near her mother was in tears at a memory so essential, so deep and intrinsic......a mother who nurses forms a bond with her baby that even time and senility cannot completely erase.......yeah, y'all know that i was in tears, as well...at the notion that senility cannot completely triumph over those memories that are basic and true.....