My daughter is home visiting from Arizona this week and we have been enjoying a lot of family time. Growing up I spent a great deal of time with my mother, grandmother, great aunts, aunts, cousins and sister. My dad was always working away from home while the women congregated around the family business.
Although I spent much of my time with these women I never really felt a great affinity for women. I wanted to be like my dad. I'm not sure I achieved that in any great form, but it was my desire most of my life. Many of my best friends have been boys or men. They just seem to resonate with the things I like to read, watch, or do.
My daughter is just the opposite. She adores her daughters and never misses a moment she can be with them. She spends a lot of time with me when she is here in town and she spends a lot of time with her boy friend's mother too. They even vacation together in Hawaii or wherever the place is that year. She has great female coworkers and other good friends, all women.
She is a woman's woman and it has served her well.
I don't quite understand it, but I love it. I know that wherever she is, she will always be among people who love her and will care for her.
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