Swiftly Ebbing

I’d thought of titles like ’Return to Innocence’, based on the fact that in my experience my innocence was taken away from me in my youth. My mother had guided me as far as she could, like the good shepherd guides her sheep. That she could not guide me later in life, through the crises that deflected me from the path that she’d chosen for me, and in one sense believed it was for me, is no reflection on her skills or understanding.