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  • Mother’s Day 2011

    Ethel Dorman circa 1932

    The Original Mother’s Day Proclamation

    I post this poem every year but commentary differs.

    We have gotten so far away from the original thoughts of Julia Ward Howe and made Mother's Day into yet another day to promote shopping and buying.

    [my mom, circa 1932]

    We are encouraged to telephone, send cards, send flowers and buy mom all matter of stuff.

    I doubt many Mother's Day shoppers even know how this day came to be or that it started as an anti war poem!

    Take time this weekend to reflect about what Julia Ward Howe wrote.

    Mother's Day Proclamation – 1870
    by Julia Ward Howe

    Arise then…women of this day!

    Arise, all women who have hearts!

    Whether your baptism be of water or of tears!

     

    Say firmly:

    "We will not have questions answered by irrelevant agencies,

    Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage,

    For caresses and applause.

    Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn

    All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.

    We, the women of one country,

    Will be too tender of those of another country

    To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs."

     

    From the voice of a devastated Earth a voice goes up with

    Our own. It says: "Disarm! Disarm!

    The sword of murder is not the balance of justice."

    Blood does not wipe our dishonor,

    Nor violence indicate possession.

    As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil

    At the summons of war,

    Let women now leave all that may be left of home

    For a great and earnest day of counsel.

     

    Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.

    Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means

    Whereby the great human family can live in peace…

    Each bearing after his own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar,

    But of God –

     

    In the name of womanhood and humanity, I earnestly ask

    That a general congress of women without limit of nationality,

    May be appointed and held at someplace deemed most convenient

    And the earliest period consistent with its objects,

    To promote the alliance of the different nationalities,

    The amicable settlement of international questions,

    The great and general interests of peace.


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    Let's elect more mothers and end war!

    And in the meantime – let's bring the troops HOME!!

    Peace

  • Mother’s Day

    my mother circa 1932[I post this poem every year]

    The Original Mother’s Day Proclamation

    We have gotten so far away from the original thoughts and made this one too into a shopping spree day – like all our holidays!

    Take time this weekend to think about what Julia Ward Howe wrote.

    [my mom, circa 1932]

     

    Mother's Day Proclamation – 1870
    by Julia Ward Howe

    Arise then…women of this day!
    Arise, all women who have hearts!
    Whether your baptism be of water or of tears!

    Say firmly:
    "We will not have questions answered by irrelevant agencies,
    Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage,
    For caresses and applause.
    Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
    All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.
    We, the women of one country,
    Will be too tender of those of another country
    To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs."

    From the voice of a devastated Earth a voice goes up with
    Our own. It says: "Disarm! Disarm!
    The sword of murder is not the balance of justice."
    Blood does not wipe our dishonor,
    Nor violence indicate possession.
    As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil
    At the summons of war,
    Let women now leave all that may be left of home
    For a great and earnest day of counsel.

    Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.
    Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means
    Whereby the great human family can live in peace…
    Each bearing after his own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar,
    But of God –

    In the name of womanhood and humanity, I earnestly ask
    That a general congress of women without limit of nationality,
    May be appointed and held at someplace deemed most convenient
    And the earliest period consistent with its objects,
    To promote the alliance of the different nationalities,
    The amicable settlement of international questions,
    The great and general interests of peace.

    Peace,
    Lynn

  • Mother’s Day – The original

    This is my annual repost about the origin of mother’s day.

    We have gotten so far away from the original thoughts and made it into a shopping spree day – like all our holidays!

    Take time today to think about what Julia Howe wrote.

    Mother’s Day Proclamation – 1870
    by Julia Ward Howe

    Arise then…women of this day!
    Arise, all women who have hearts!
    Whether your baptism be of water or of tears!
    Say firmly:
    “We will not have questions answered by irrelevant agencies,
    Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage,
    For caresses and applause.
    Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
    All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.
    We, the women of one country,
    Will be too tender of those of another country
    To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.”

    From the voice of a devastated Earth a voice goes up with
    Our own. It says: “Disarm! Disarm!
    The sword of murder is not the balance of justice.”
    Blood does not wipe our dishonor,
    Nor violence indicate possession.
    As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil
    At the summons of war,
    Let women now leave all that may be left of home
    For a great and earnest day of counsel.
    Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.
    Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means
    Whereby the great human family can live in peace…
    Each bearing after his own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar,
    But of God –
    In the name of womanhood and humanity, I earnestly ask
    That a general congress of women without limit of nationality,
    May be appointed and held at someplace deemed most convenient
    And the earliest period consistent with its objects,
    To promote the alliance of the different nationalities,
    The amicable settlement of international questions,
    The great and general interests of peace.

    Peace,
    Lynn

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  • Mother’s Day 2007


    A repeat posting [from Mother’s Day 2006 on my politikal blog] – with a few minor edits
    [cross-posted there today as well]



    How did we get away from the original intent of Howe’s mother’s day proclamation to a now corporate event of sell sell sell and buy buy buy? Oh and do not forget to make those intercepted phone calls….

    I cry for those mommy’s who have lost their children in the mad shrub’s so-called war….

    Let’s take back mother’s day – we started to take back our country from mad king george last Fall – let’s continue to do so….peaceably

    Mother’s Day Proclamation – 1870
    by Julia Ward Howe

    Arise then…women of this day!
    Arise, all women who have hearts!
    Whether your baptism be of water or of tears!
    Say firmly:
    “We will not have questions answered by irrelevant agencies,
    Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage,
    For caresses and applause.
    Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
    All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.
    We, the women of one country,
    Will be too tender of those of another country
    To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.”

    From the voice of a devastated Earth a voice goes up with
    Our own. It says: “Disarm! Disarm!
    The sword of murder is not the balance of justice.”
    Blood does not wipe our dishonor,
    Nor violence indicate possession.
    As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil
    At the summons of war,
    Let women now leave all that may be left of home
    For a great and earnest day of counsel.
    Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.
    Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means
    Whereby the great human family can live in peace…
    Each bearing after his own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar,
    But of God –
    In the name of womanhood and humanity, I earnestly ask
    That a general congress of women without limit of nationality,
    May be appointed and held at someplace deemed most convenient
    And the earliest period consistent with its objects,
    To promote the alliance of the different nationalities,
    The amicable settlement of international questions,
    The great and general interests of peace.

    Peace

    glyconutrients, healthy aging, growing older, aging, nutrition, exercise, eating properly,