I have treid to capture the essence of what I heard a woman say about her mother. I think I have covered all the points and, althoug using my own words, capatured the tone of love and expressed admiration as she talked on hre mother…

My mother (in her 80s) is one of the most active women of her age I have ever known or heard about. It is quite wonderful how she keeps in contact with her family all over the world and remembers everything important. She forgets ‘little things’ here an there but no more or less than people half her age. I hsve never known anyone to be so forgiving and trusting and it is not that she has had an easy life. She has outlived two husbands and two or her 5 sons and daughters and three grandchildren. There has been so much change in the world during her lifetime but she has never been ‘stuck’ in the past or afraid of change. Mother follows sports, gives to charites, visits her friends and knows her neighbors. She hss never lost ber sense of humour – especially when it comes to the retirement home where she lives. Mother is not critical of the young and never gives the impression that the ‘old days’ were better than today.