greater things

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Cheetah Cub_F9P5581 by day1953 on Flickr.

one of my favorite places … 

there are times in your life when you wish you could undo something you did.  well, here’s one of mine and it revolves around this cookbook.  this cookbook is my mother’s copy, but the same year she bought this for herself, she bought one for me as well.  when she died, my then best friend seemed like the perfect person to give my copy of the cookbook (and many of my mother’s owls because my friend liked owls too).  i never thought i would have another child, let alone a daughter … even though i wanted another child and a daughter.  my ex was very controlling and basically took matters into his own hands (literally).  

at any rate, during the tail end of my marriage my seeming best friend took sides — and mine wasn’t it.  she even swore in an affadavit that i was an unfit mother and that my ex should get sole custody.  thankfully father god was on my side and the judge saw things a LOT differently.  

at any rate, now my daughter (the one i thought i would never have) is 20 and cooking for herself and i would love to give her my copy of the cookbook — but i don’t own it — and the owls (because she, like her grandmother loves owls).  how do you undo something when you don’t even speak to that person anymore?

in my mind i feel like if i had betrayed someone so badly, as she did, i would give back all those things that had such meaning.  but she didn’t, and she still has contact with my ex, so it would be easy to do.  but her conscious isn’t mine and she hasn’t returned the items, and it makes me realize that at some point i’m going to have to let go of this.    hopefully, soon …