Sharon Feinstein

I don’t like Skype.
Of course it’s wonderful to be able to contact your daughter on the other side of the globe and see her on the screen, tattoos and all. She didn’t have them when she left home by the way. But then its followed by the awful inevitable end, the slurp, slap, thud of the over button, and the horrible flat, grey screen where her beautiful face was shining a few seconds before.
I get this sick, sinking feeling when she says, Bye mum, and the screen becomes the grey wall, and she’s simply gone. We’re living such global lives now, Lara in Toronto instead of at home, my mother in Johannesburg, another voice at the end of a machine that shuts off, and me in London writing blogs.
Our children strike out into the distance following dreams and taking their chances and you just have to let them go. Sometimes it takes all ones strength not to think about all the horrible, scary things that could happen, from one day to the next. Lara is trying to establish herself as a singer songwriter all alone in Toronto, a brave talented girl following her music. I interviewed Amy Winehouse when she was just starting out and the same age as La. Now a sad, shambling wreck of a young woman with a shabby, dishevelled dream. Let’s hope Lara fares a lot better, with one small step at a time, and ends up a lot happier.

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