stoic (Carol 1978)
Third in a series of five photos of my mother entered in the 2025 Many Faces of Mom contest. Here are the fourth and second entries.
My mother had many kinds of inner strength. On display in this photo from a family trip to the western U.S. is her ability to balance her strong motherly protective instincts with her determination to let her children grow and discover (mostly) on their own terms. I took this photo while she watched keenly her second-oldest son and her youngest as they scampered down to the edge of a sheer ~300-foot cliff. This was not a park with stairs and guardrails, just a roadside pull-off with a steep scree slope and an unprotected cliff. She was extremely nervous for their safety but mastered her impulse to call them back, trusting them to use the common sense she was always trying to develop in us.
stoic (Carol 1978)
Third in a series of five photos of my mother entered in the 2025 Many Faces of Mom contest. Here are the fourth and second entries.
My mother had many kinds of inner strength. On display in this photo from a family trip to the western U.S. is her ability to balance her strong motherly protective instincts with her determination to let her children grow and discover (mostly) on their own terms. I took this photo while she watched keenly her second-oldest son and her youngest as they scampered down to the edge of a sheer ~300-foot cliff. This was not a park with stairs and guardrails, just a roadside pull-off with a steep scree slope and an unprotected cliff. She was extremely nervous for their safety but mastered her impulse to call them back, trusting them to use the common sense she was always trying to develop in us.