Home is where my Mother is.

Another 6 word story and part of our mapping assignment for our art history class. I've begun to map the places that I've spread my mother's ashes, including places here in Ireland. It's become a therapeutic project. I'm reconnecting her to the land and sea in places significant to her as well as myself. Back home we still have ashes at the house and some buried in the cemetery of our church next to her father. We spread ashes down in Maryland near the house her parents had and in the bay she loved sailing in. These are places I have loved as well and are just as much a part of my childhood. And now spreading the ashes in Ireland is important as I told her I would take her with me on this journey. She loved visiting me when I went to Scotland and she wished she was able to come to Ireland...and in this way I have brought her here...though not the most ideal situation. But in various spots of beauty and peace, I've sprinkled a small bit of ashes, seasoning the land with her spirit. And I feel like I'm giving a piece of myself as well and connecting us both with the land and sea.