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You can think of this nagging inner voice as sort of the brain's equivalent of the Catholic Church, if you're an Austrian like me, or the super-ego, if you're Freudian, or your mother, if you're Jewish.
Come to think of it, knowing when you're wrong without a teacher, or your mother, telling you, is a very hard problem.
In fact, my mother told me eventually that I was the little kid in the village who cried all the way to school.
Thirty years have passed, and I still feel guilty about that prayer, for the next day, I learned that that missile landed on my brother's friend's home and killed him and his father, but did not kill his mother or his sister.
His mother showed up the next week at my brother's classroom and begged seven-year-old kids to share with her any picture they may have of her son, for she had lost everything.
That's what my mother in Iraq used to tell me.
We are missing my mother's story, who made sure with every siren, with every raid, with every cut off-of electricity, she played puppet shows for my brothers and I, so we would not be scared of the sounds of explosions.
That mother has a better chance to heal her children than any peace agreement can do.
This shirt, for example, is one that, much to the dismay of my mother and the state of her kitchen, I dyed at home, using turmeric, before coming here today.
And then I realized I had to figure out who his next of kin was and ask them, and it turned out it was Andre Waters's 88-year-old mother.
And I sat there, and I took a breath and I thought, "Am I really going to cold-call an 88-year-old grieving mother who just lost her son to suicide?"
Their mother, their father, their aunt, their uncle, their grandparents, whoever it might have been who had gotten them to this point.
Or, "Your mother is very, very ill.
Her mother was from Alabama, father from West Virginia, they migrated to Detroit, different years, met, married, had her and her siblings, and thus a legend was born.
My mother, my sister, my auntie, they all get out, but my father and I stayed in the limousine, and no sooner than the women got out, he burst out crying.
His mother had died from a heroin overdose.
So, like my mother would say, make a long story short, I just simply said to Johnny, "Yes."
I'm a product of this visionary mother and father.
And since I said they're my role models, I followed two things which my father and mother gave me.
In my mother's day, she didn't go to college.
And so in a few weeks, what ended up happening was, I lost my identity as a faculty member, and I got a very stressful new identity as a mother.
So to take one example among many: in Southern India there's a practice known as jholabhari, in which the pregnant woman, when she's seven or eight months pregnant, moves in with her mother and goes through a series of rituals and ceremonies, give birth and returns home to her nuclear family several months after the child is born.
On a warm August morning in Harare, Farai, a 24-year-old mother of two, walks towards a park bench.
And one day I get a call from Erica's mother, and she says, "Erica committed suicide three days ago.
That statement from Erica's mother: "We didn't have 15 dollars bus fare to come to you," made me realize that it just wasn't going to work, me expecting people to come to me.
We found this leopard in a 2,000-year-old baobab tree in Africa, the same tree that we found her mother in and her grandmother.
When her mother would go off hunting, we would stay and film.
But only when we saw the tiny baby baboon clinging to the mother's fur did we realize that something very unique was taking place here with Legadema.
Because she is a cub wanting to play, but she was also a predator needing to kill, and yet conflicted in some way, because she was also an emerging mother.
It's a stronger risk factor than having a mother or a sister with breast cancer.
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