.MollyJongFast on how this MothersDay is going to look a little different.
My mother and I have always had one of those very complicated relationships, the kind you see in seventies movies. But that said, I worship my mother. I love her in that insane way we love our parents — not quite the crushing way we love our children but so overwhelming that I know that much of my current life is shaped in one way or another as a reaction to her.
And so, we come to Mother’s Day. On a normal Mother’s Day, I would pick a cozy restaurant and take my mother out for a meal. I would make my children dress up, maybe even wear ties and uncomfortable shoes. On past Mother’s Days, we’d drive up to Connecticut to see my octogenarian in-laws. Mother’s Day is a day of delightful obligations, a day to eat fancy chocolate, and celebrate the woman who made me such a lunatic.
But this Mother’s Day is going to look a little different. In a pandemic, it must. Coronavirus rages in New York, my city, the epicenter, the Wuhan of America. My mother, the feminist writer Erica Jong is across town, locked away in her 27th-floor apartment with my stepfather. They do not go out or in. Recently, she tweeted how much she missed seeing her grandchildren, which was heartbreaking to read.
Obviously, it’s the perfect Mother’s Day to send flowers. Yes, flowers are a perfect solution. Well, not so fast: The pandemic has affected the supply chain and few have been hit harder than florists, Mother’s Day has traditionally been one of the biggest days for florists. But this year the supply chain is a fickle mistress, “When flowers come in from around the world, they’re coming in the cargo hold of jetliners carrying people,” Holly Chapple of Hope Flower Farm.
I got my mom a papier-mâché sculpture of some of our books together; it was made by an artist I found on Instagram named. Tomorrow I am sending her a little cake from my local family-owned Butterfield market. If there were ever a time to support small businesses and young artists it’s now. Next year we’ll go for a meal; this year we’ll Zoom so that we canMother’s Day without mother feels like an oxymoron.
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