Top 10 regrets of the dying

With mother’s day being this weekend in Australia (and in some other parts of the world), I write to celebrate mothers worldwide.

This photo represents a part of my own experience of motherhood. There is also my role as a mother myself now, to my beautiful young daughter, Elena.

But this photo represents the generations who have taught me since my own birth about motherhood and the power of the feminine.

It is hard to believe that this occasion in the photo was almost 20 years ago. We were celebrating my mother’s 60th birthday at the time.

Mum’s mum, my gran, was already into her nineties and was to pass less than a year later.

Bronnie ware 5 regrets

Despite how fragile she appears, the inner strength that Gran taught by natural example has shaped me enormously my whole life.

When she was only 13, her mother died. Gran was the oldest of 11 children, so left school to raise all of her younger siblings.

She then went on to raise seven of her own, including my dear mum. Gran was an incredibly stubborn,