Just a few thoughts on Mother's Day, about my own gorgeous mom, my lovely sister who is a super-mom, and so many other women in my life who exemplify what it is to be a mother, whether they have children or not. I count many as dear and vital friends, I've adopted many of them, and I admire them all (and if we know each other and you're wondering if I'm talking about you, I am!). But my own mom is the one who gave me my first and lasting definition of 'mother', and I have found myself 'mothering' in many times/parts of my life, and if I do it right, it's because of what I learned from her.
Happy Mother's Day Mom! I Love You!
“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.”
― Washington Irving
“No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother's love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star.” - Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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| Allegria & Don, my 'rents |
― Mitch Albom
"A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them." - Victor Hugo
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| Generational moms: my sister Becky & Mom |
― N.K. Jemisin
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| More generational love - me ... a few years ago ... with a picture of my mom's mom, Hannah. |
“If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been.”
― Robert Brault
