{"id":126837,"date":"2022-05-25T20:22:04","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T13:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/two-years-after-my-mums-death-flowers-have-become-a-portal-to-her-chitra-ramaswamy\/"},"modified":"2022-05-25T20:44:37","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T13:44:37","slug":"two-years-after-my-mums-death-flowers-have-become-a-portal-to-her-chitra-ramaswamy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/two-years-after-my-mums-death-flowers-have-become-a-portal-to-her-chitra-ramaswamy\/","title":{"rendered":"Two years after my mum\u2019s death, flowers have become a portal to her | Chitra Ramaswamy"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nIn my childhood memories my mum is hitching up her sari to snip a cutting from a stranger\u2019s garden, or watching Gardeners World. Now crocuses, tulips and daisies are my portal to herIt was springtime, two years ago, and my mum was dying. The crocuses bordering the paths of my local park were in full bloom and every day the plucky sprays of purple, yellow and white seemed to inch further skywards. How thoughtless their ascent looked. How perilously close spring suddenly seemed to winter.I had just rushed back to Edinburgh as the country was going into lockdown, and by country I mean the nation, not its leaders. In London, my mum lay in the hospital where she once worked as a cytology screener, assisted by machines and some mighty inner force that for a few hallucinatory weeks seemed to rise up in her. My mum, who in my childhood memories was usually found hitching up her sari to snip a cutting from a stranger\u2019s garden. My mum, who was finally dying of the breast cancer she had been so valiantly facing for years. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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