Martha Lou Brown Deserves Her Flowers

After therapy, I found myself thinking about my grandmother, and realized something: I cannot conjure her face from memory without looking at a photograph....but I can see her hands.Her hands teaching my little brown girl hands how to work, how to cook, how to farm, how to care for myself and others.Hands performing tasks.And somewhere inside that realization is a much larger question: Who was the woman behind those hands?What did she dream about? What did she love? What did she dislike? What did she want for herself beyond the roles assigned to her as a woman, wife, mother, and grandmother?This episode is for Martha Lou Brown.Because she deserves her name.She deserves her flowers.And she deserves to be remembered as a whole woman—not just a pair of hands.Support the show