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jane smithers
(ma mere)
has always known how to create a home.
not just a space you life in,
a home.
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she has owned catering companies,
and run design firms,
and raised lauren and i,
(someday, she'll be asked to give a TED lecture on that one . . .)
but whenever i enter a space she has touched,
i feel it.
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"home"
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White Wing Cottage,
the home she built in the blue ridge mountains
when she restarted her life in her fifties,
is one of the best.
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set on the side of a mountain,
with a view of three ranges out the back,
it is warm, colorful, sedate, elegant,
and the perfect space for her to return to after her travels
and set up her canvases.
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i finally got back this thanksgiving,
and spent a few amazing days with she, my sister, and my brother (in-law, but really just brother).
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perfect.
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i found out a few things the first day.
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one,
she has begun to paint figurative,
not just landscape.
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amazing. adore.
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second,
tim and i had started collecting bakelite bangles for her
YEARS ago,
not quite knowing how they'd explode as a collectible.
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and seeing them in her home,
they have been well loved,
not "collected"
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and finally,
i remembered how nice it is
to put your feet up by the fire
with your mother
and just be.
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