posted May 09, 2015 11:15 AM            

Best wishes for a happy Mother's Day, along with gratitude and thanks to mothers everywhere but especially our LindaLand mothers!

'The hand that rocks the cradle' rules the world

Bill Federer recounts history of Mother's Day

Mothers’ Day was held in Boston in 1872 at the suggestion of Julia Ward Howe, writer of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.”

But it was Anna Jarvis, daughter of a Methodist minister in Grafton, West Virginia, who made it a national event.

During the Civil War, Anna Jarvis’ mother organized Mothers’ Day work clubs to care for wounded soldiers, both Union and Confederate.

She raised money for medicine, inspected bottled milk, improved sanitation and hired women to care for families where mothers suffered from tuberculosis.

In her mother’s honor, Anna Jarvis persuaded her church to set aside the second Sunday in May, the anniversary of her mother’s death, as a day to appreciate all mothers.

Encouraged by the reception, Anna Jarvis organized it in Philadelphia, then began a letter-writing campaign to ministers, businessmen and politicians to establish a national Mothers’ Day.

In response, on May 9, 1914, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the first National Mothers’ Day as a “public expression of … love and reverence for the mothers of our country.”

President Reagan said in his Mother’s Day proclamation, 1986: “A Jewish saying sums it up: ‘God could not be everywhere – so He created mothers.’”

American poet William Ross Wallace wrote: “The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.”

posted May 10, 2015 05:24 PM            

Well, some moms are toxic but its my fervent wish for those people that they grow up and realize that the canonization of motherhood doesn't mean everyone is a natural..and that every relationship is partly our own input. I am glad I Learned that before my mother died. .ie grew up and realized she was human too. Having kids can be a real eye opener into our mother's "flaws" and growing up means stopping trying to change them and change ourselves instead. I found ...That unilateral appreciation for her humanity healed our relationship totally and the love shone through our differences.

Anna Jarvis also deplored the Hallmark commercial approach but hey! We can do it however WE think appropriate. And there are worse things than cards and flowers to spend our money on.

posted May 12, 2015 06:47 AM            

sometimes a good vent is all one needs.

posted May 13, 2015 06:45 PM            

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