'When I became a mother, I finally understood the blurred lines that parenting can bring, the overlapping of one life with another,' actress and writer Marianne Leone says. (WBUR)
My mother stood at the edge of the water near the cottage she rented every year in Wareham and performed what we kids called the “Italian dip.” She waded in up to her knees, crouched and splashed her chest and arms with the icy waters of the bay. Then, ablutions over, she went back to her blanket and soaked in the sun. Before immigrating to America, my Italian mother had lived her life surrounded by the Apennines, the mountain range that forms the spine of Italy.
This water is saltier, ancient, welcoming. It surrounds me in a maternal embrace that makes me question why"mare" in Italian is ascribed a masculine descriptor. Didn’t all life emerge from the ocean? The water that holds me in that storied sea feels like a mother, like the source of all life. But my mother’s association with the Mediterranean was as a place of tears, of escape from an arranged marriage and a looming war.
In the deep south of Italy, the beach is baby-powder soft; I can float like an angel without wings and glide towards the mirrored blue, reborn into a languid body stupefied by sun. This magically fluid new body is one that is still somehow familiar. It’s the spirit-form from my childhood dreams, when I thought I could make myself grow like Alice to Amazon-size in an instant, or walk a tightrope to the stars.
[M]y mother and I were enemies facing off against the cultural barriers that made us strangers bound by blood.
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