Bloom On The Prickly Pear, Minneapolis, Minnesota, July 2008, photo © 2008-2009 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
mothers past, present
holding up the other half
of a timeless sky
Prickly Pear Buds, Bees On The Prickly Pear, Before The Bloom, Minneapolis, Minnesota, July 2008, photo © 2008-2009 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
Post Script: Happy Mother’s Day and much gratitude to ybonesy, Amelia (I miss you!), oliverowl, gritsinpa, ybonesy’s Mom, Jim’s Mom, red Ravine readers who are Mothers, and all the other Mothers who show up and make a difference in the world. May your Spring day be filled with passion and wonder.
-posted on red Ravine, Sunday, May 10th, 2009
-related to posts: WRITING TOPIC — NAMES OF FLOWERS, day after mother’s day haiku, haiku 2 (one-a-day)
QM: Thank you for the beautiful photo, haiku and Mother’s Day wish. Blessings to ALL mothers for the gift, to those of us walking it, of life on this earth!
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Beautiful! Happy Mothers Day to you too 🙂
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QM, lovely photo & haiku! Happy Mothers Day to all! D
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breathepeace, the same. Thanks so much for stopping by. Happy Mother’s Day to you!
goddess, to you, too!
diddy, hope you had a good day, too. Just talked to Mom for a spell after her trip to Georgia last week, Maryland today. Guess the gals had fun!
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Got an email note from author Jean Shinoda Bolen about the 5th WCW and Mother’s Day Proclamation. Link has an interesting video on Gloria Steinem and others speaking to the origins of Mother’s Day — The origin of Mother’s Day was a call by Julia Ward Howe in 1870 to the women of the world to come together ‘in a general congress of women” of all nationalities in the great interest of peace. We need a UN 5WCW “in the name of womanhood and for humanity.” A call for peace. Great old footage. Hear the original proclamation at the link. Amazing how it still rings true.
I’m writing this in a hotel room in Buenos Aires a few days before Mother’s Day. The original Mother’s Day proclamation in 1870 was a call to all women in the world to gather at a great congress in the interest of peace. It is exactly the potential of a UN 5th women’s world conference. Go to the homepage of http://www.5wcw.org and hear the Mother’s Day proclamation as introduced by Gloria Steinem with the words said by Vanessa Williams, Felicity Huffman, Fatma Saleh, Alfre Woodard, Ashraf Salimian, and Christine Lahti.
-Jean Shinoda Bolen
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Thank you, QM! That is a lovely lovely photo, so soft and tender. Isn’t it amazing that something so prickly could bear something that looks like it’s made of tissue?
Happy Mother’s Day, too, to all my friends and family who are mothers. I learn something from each one of you.
And QM and Liz, caring mothers to Chaco and Mr Pants and (egads, I’m forgetting #3–sorry!)…Happy Mothers Day to you both!
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ybonesy, it does look like tissue paper in this photograph with that soft light. I am just amazed every year when this cactus blooms. It really knocks my socks off!
Hope you had a great Mother’s Day, yb. And thanks for mentioning “the boy” (Liz and I have taken to calling him that) Chaco, Mr. StripeyPants, and Kiev. Kiev rules the roost; she’s the only female. She tends to be quite healthy so doesn’t get written up as much (so I can see why you’d forget her name!). She’s the black Tiffany. Love her to death.
Liz got Kiev one year when her friend got a cat named Moscow. 8) I need to do a post on Kiev at some point. She’s also hard to get good photos of since she’s all black with thick fur. The details just don’t show up as well. Oh, and Kiev was the first of Liz’s cats to take to me when I first moved in. It took the boys a while longer.
When I talked to Mom yesterday she asked about Chaco. He’s actually doing pretty well. Stable. We are still giving him the .45 fluids to try to get his sodium down. He’ll be going back for bloodwork next week probably. We take these things a day at a time!
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I hope all had a wonderful day. I had a very nice and surprising day. (Okay, that means a blog post all about it is coming in the next week or so.)
The haiku is very nice and sweet. I’m not a haiku person but this one I liked.
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Thanks, Corina. Sure appreciate your comment. And glad you had a nice and surprising Mother’s Day. Sounds like a great post coming up!
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