"Sometimes the most powerful thing a mother says is said in silence — in presence, in patience, in staying." — Steve Martin, Vision-Keeper She never said: "I believe in you." Not in those words. Not in the language of a coaching session or a motivational talk. She said it in different ways — in the way she showed up on difficult mornings, in the way she let me fail without treating failure as a verdict, in the way she asked about my life with what felt, even then, like genuin