From Npr and Discover Magazine.
"When you fall in a river, you're no longer a fisherman; you're a swimmer."
- Gene Hill
Extracted from Spiral Eye Newsletter October 2009
Mother's day is a day set aside to honor our mothers, motherhood and maternal relationships. We are
grateful to our mother for the gift of life. She cared for us through childhood and even continues
in our adulthood. Who taught you to play jacks and how to iron by practicing on your dad's
handkerchiefs? Where did you learn to sing "I'm a Little Teapot"? Who thought of wrapping the
Santa presents in special paper? Who else would warn you to wear clean underwear in case you got in
an accident?
A woman's brain undergoes profound and permanent changes during pregnancy and caring for an infant
due to the role hormones play during this phase of a woman's life. The structure, function, and
chemistry of the "mommy brain" are measurably different and affect her thought processes, mood, and
behavior. Moms are more nurturing, courageous, and even better at multi-tasking than women who have
not borne a child. So your mom really does have eyes in the back of her head.
Each mother is unique and has her own special gifts to share. Some have the traditional arts of
cooking and sewing, some show us how to have careers outside the home or to be community leaders,
and some try to do it all. Literally half of who we are comes from our mom. We carry at a cellular
level in our DNA a continuation of the physical essence of our mothers and foremothers. Practice
gratitude for the gifts you have received from your mother.
"Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly." ~Ambrose Bierce
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Show your appreciation to your mother or any special woman in your life.
Give her a gift of nurturing touch and health.
Help her take care of herself for a change, instead of everyone else.
Encourage her to relax, de-stress, smooth away those tight muscles and aching joints.
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"Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go
walking around outside your body." ~Elizabeth Stone
"It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be
avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge." ~Phyllis Diller
Extracted from Spiral Eye Newsletter May 2010
Anna M. Jarvis is largely responsible for the Mother's Day we now celebrate annually in the U.S and
many countries in the world. In 1907, two years after the death of her own mother, she began a
campaign to establish a national Mother's Day on the anniversary of her own mother's death on the
second Sunday in May. Within two years, churches in 46 states, Canada and Mexico held Mother's Day
services. In 1914, Congress passed a resolution signed by President Woodrow Wilson establishing a
national Mother's Day.
Anna Jarvis lived to see Mother's Day celebrated in more than 40 countries, although she was unhappy
about the commercialism that came to be associated with the holiday. She objected to the Mother's
Day profits made by the florist industry, and she was opposed to sending greeting cards in lieu of
letters.
