I'm Marjorie Pennett.

I'm Elizabeth Reese.

This is Best of the Nest, the podcast that's all about creating strong, comfortable, beautifulness that prepare us to fly.

I have titled this episode, Mothering 2. We're doing a follow-up to

a podcast that we posted two weeks ago where we had Molly Mokron Katz on talking about your family

of origin, your mother, how mothering has influenced her, how she wants to be a different kind of

mother. And today, well, it was actually

last night I was working out and I came across an interview that Jane Fonda had done with Chris

Wallace on CNN. And she talked about her mothering. And I want to get to that in a minute. But before I

get to that, in the last year, a lot of you have

listened to me, talk about my mother and what I had been through in the last 18 months and

taking care of my mother. She had moved to Manhattan from Chicago. And I want everybody to know

what that really meant, because it was, it has become to me a real sign of her grace in aging.

She lived in Chicago in a high rise on the lake, which she loved.

So every morning she could go out and sit on her balcony and look at the lake and have

her tea or coffee.

She loved living in Chicago.

She loved living there.

And that apartment was about 10 blocks from where she grew up.

Yeah. So this is a woman who had never, other than a brief stay in a suburb of Evanston and a brief stay when she had young children in the way out suburbs. She rubberbanded back to Chicago.

She loved that city.

And her moving here was a real sort of a relinquishment of her agency.

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