In 2003, I went back home to Illinois to care for my mother in her last year of life. She was 89. My brother had been with her for the previous two years. He took over, again, after six months, and was with her in the last four months of her life. In crucial ways, she was a more significant figure than our father, who died ten years before. Mother is the day to day account of elder care and how it affected and didn’t affect my life as a son, a brother, an artist, and one living in awareness of the illusion of all relationships.
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