Happy Mother's Day,
to all mothers! 

The Bath

                                                                                                                    The Bath
                                                                                                                    Mary Cassatt
 
 

And when we (to use Alice Walker's lovely phrase)
go in search of our mothers' gardens,
it's not really to learn who trampled on them
or how or even why -- we usually know that already.
Rather, it's to learn what our mothers planted there,
what they thought as they sowed,
and how they survived
the blighting of so many fruits.

                                                                    ~ Sherley Anne WIlliams
 
 

How simple a thing it seems to me
that to know ourselves as we are,
we must know our mothers' names.

                                                                    ~ Alice Walker
 
 

                                On the Beach             On the Beach
                                by Don Hatfield

                   Camille Monet with a Child        Camille Monet with a Child
                                                                                                                  by Claude Monet
 
 

                        We teach what we know,
                                                    but we reproduce what we are.
                                                                    ~ Winston Churchill
 
 


Mothers Little Angel

                                                                                                                    Mother's Little Angel
                                                                                                                    by Norman Rockwell
 
 

05-11-03    Easter 4

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