title: Whispers From A Mother's Soul
author: Nonnie Simon
description: Nonnie Simon currently lives in Worcester, MA. She is married to her high school sweetheart, the mother of three adult daughters and the grandmother of six grandchildren. An avid crafter, Nonnie has tried her hand at many different creative endeavors. Currently she's enjoying writing but also loves sewing, cake decorating, knitting, crocheting, painting and jewelry making.
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  RUPERT THOMSON
  
  
  A MEMOIR
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  # [1965](9781847082800_toc.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  My mother spoke to me once after she was dead. Nine years old, I was standing
  outside our house, in the shadow of a yew tree, when I heard her call my name.
  It came from high up, and to my left, and I imagined for a moment that she was
  upstairs, but all the windows at the front of the house were closed, and there
  was nothing pale in any of those black rectangles, nothing to suggest a face.
  Besides, I felt her voice had come from outside. Real and clear, but
  disembodied, like a recording – though later I thought it was how an angel
  might sound, if an angel were to speak. I stared at the yew tree – its
  splintered bark, its scratchy leaves – and noticed how dull the berries
  looked, their red skin covered with a milky bloom. I stared at the scuffed
  toes of my shoes. I had answered my mother’s call – I had said, ‘Yes?’ – but I
  heard nothing else, 