Maybe it's just that I miss my children...

... but every time I'm in Mumbai and drive past a particular intersection, I am moved to tears by a piece of modern sculpture*.  It is a fairly abstract rendering of a mother and child which takes its title from a quote given by famous Indian Columnist, Vithal Venkatesh Kamat:

"A child gives birth to a mother"

The first time I saw it and read the quote, I didn't quite get it.  But after a few minutes of it swirling around my head (plenty of room for that), I realized that it is only the existence of the child that creates a mother (and/or father, of course).

Like I said at the outset, maybe it's because I miss my children, or maybe it's because I tend to spot this sculpture late in my travels in India (i.e. when I'm physically and emotionally drained).  But the idea that my children created me as a father (and Zahava as a mother) - and that they continue to create and improve us in those roles - always brings the water to my eyes.

I need to get home.

*  Zahava can attest to the fact that I normally loathe public sculpture... particularly modern/abstract art.