Happy Mothers’ Day!
I hope everyone is enjoying this day on which we thank our mothers for being the wonderful and kind people they are, and express our gratitude for the numerous sacrifices they made on our behalf.
The way Mothers’ Day is celebrated in the U.S., with its cards and flowers, is a relatively recent phenomenon (early 20th Century). Yet the basic concept goes back many thousands of years, at least to the ancient Egyptians, who set aside a day in the springtime to pay homage to the goddess Isis, regarded as the “ideal mother and wife as well as the patroness of nature.”
Ah, now you see where I’m going with this, don’t you? And you thought momentarily that I might overlook a perfectly good opportunity to put in a plug for our Mother Earth. Not a chance. We need to respect Her, just as we do the great women who brought us into the world.
