In the movie, "Breakfast at Tiffany's," Audrey Hepburn's character, Holly Golightly, says that Tiffany's, "Calms me down right away. The quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there." Sounds like my kind of place! But, my 'Tiffany's' isn't a store...it's the simple act of laying my head on my Mother's shoulder that does the trick for me.
A couple of Sundays ago, as I was listening to the sermon in church, I quietly laid my head on my Mother's shoulder. The feeling of peace that washed over me was overwhelming! I felt like a little girl again. All I wanted was to curl up in her lap in the blue rocking chair in the living room and just 'be' for a bit. Nothing bad can happen to you in your Mother's lap, you know.
When I reluctantly raised my head from my Mother's shoulder, I thought about all the times my boys have asked me to 'come sit down and watch this show' or 'hug me, Mom!' It's at those times that I truly hope I'm providing that same sense of refuge from the everyday world for them, just as (even at the age of 'almost 40') my Mother still provides for me. Because Holly Golightly made a good point about Tiffany's: "If I could find a real-life place that'd make me feel like Tiffany's, then - then I'd buy some furniture and give the cat a name!"
