My Family and Female Cancers
My family has been decimated by female cancers, starting with my maternal grandmother. When my mother died, after fifteen years of battling cancer but also living a full life, a distress recording flickered past my consciousness. It said that the best way to honor her was to die the same way: with a big struggle, yes, but with death as the end result. In that instant, I knew that I had huge things to face to not go down the same path.
My cousins have also had to work on this (not as RCers). Our mothers taught us to persist and fight. But we have all determined to win—which, as far as I can tell [perceive], is not something our mothers thought they could do. I certainly do not blame our mothers. They fought glorious battles. We stand on their shoulders.
I, for one, am committed both to living a long life and to discharging the recordings that would leave me enmeshed in a perpetual struggle—which seems a key part of my recordings from sexism.
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Reprinted from the RC e-mail discussion list for leaders of women
(Present Time 206, January 2022)