And yet upon seeing that photograph last August of Brittney Griner during her Russian trial, the first thought I was hit with was of her mom.
And I wondered what she felt when she saw this picture of her bewildered daughter being led from the courtroom after being sentenced to nine years in a Russian penal colony?
Somehow I couldn't help assimilating everything that I read about Brittney Griner through a mother's eyes and with a mother's heart; because somehow, for some reason I can't explain, in Brittney's sad face I kept seeing the face of one of my own children.
And my heart rejoices, too, for her and for the child who's been returned.