MUSINGS TO ALL MY SONS

TO MY SONS: Yo Momma's Musings

 

It will soon be Mother's Day, and although I think it was manufactured for the sole purpose of boosting retail sales, there is one thing I would really like.  What I am asking you is usually achieved only after death, but while I'm still alive, I would really appreciate a favor.

Try to find a common ground on which you can all relate and get along.  AND...if someone disagrees with you and has another idea (which is only human nature), try to develop a good sense of humor and learn to laugh at yourself.  Accept your limitations.  That's a whole lot of not getting along.... is people not accepting their own limitations.  I would have given anything to have had three other siblings, but unfortunately my brother didn't live.  And it took my sister and I entirely too long to develop what we have now...but we did.  You have a gift.  Whether you like each other or not, you have a bond in that you had the same set of parents.  You have my mtDNA and your Dad's Y-DNA, which you share.  You share many characteristics that are similar.  Politics is certainly not worth ever having permanent disagreements over, because politics change. Ideas change.   And usually just because you think one way, doesn't mean the other way is wrong either. 

I love all of you equally. I agree with Eric on some things. I agree with Ross on some things. I agree with Craig on some things. We all have to agree to disagree occasionally without making it a major issue.   I hate it that the three of you don't jive better, but I have no control over that. You all have more in common than you know, and you should find your common ground and stick to that. It makes me sad to hear you guys lash out at each other, and you all do. You are your brother's keeper no matter what. If you don't back down and put forth an effort to maintain some peace, you're all going to be very sorry some day soon.

Again...I love you.  I don't always agree with you, and you don't always agree with me.  But I want you to TRY to do this for my sake.  It's breaking my heart that you are so ugly to each other.  Stop being so "gol-durn" (Grady's word) sensitive to everything the other one does or says.  Appreciate the fact you each have two brothers.  Please.  You just gotta laugh at some things. 

Mom