Mother's Day

Mother's Day, like Valentine's Day and Halloween, has ballooned in importance in recent decades, as if to compensate for the loss of love in today's promiscuous world, the loss of souls in today's paganized, world, and the loss of traditional motherhood in today's world of "working moms, single moms, moms on welfare and other newly created icons of the liberated woman. There are even "cougar moms" who, in front of their own daughters, prey on men. These holidays at one time were mostly for the benefit of children who would make Valentine cards at school, dress up on Halloween to knock on doors and ask for candy treats, or buy (or make) a small precious gift for Mother (before she became, by feminist diktat a "mom").

You can read some thoughts on this at Laura Wood's website, The Thinking Housewife. Since Laura's site is devoted largely to the condition of the modern woman, and the catastrophic consequences for society of the loss of traditional motherhood and femininity, you will find a plethora of articles to choose from.

Looking at the more pleasant side of today's holiday, flowers are a reminder of the infinite beauty and variety of nature. So many shapes, colors and textures. I know little about gardening, but I love to see the window boxes bloom and the shops with buckets of bright blossoms for sale out front. A reader has been sending me lots of photos of flowers. My favorite is the myosotis (above) or forget-me-nots, for their exquisite color - my favorite color - periwinkle blue (at any rate, blue is my color, however it is qualified).

Below, of course, the irresistble velvety pansy, in French "pensée", which means "thought". The pansy is a type of violet.

In France, the Fête des Mères falls late in the month of May, this year for example, on May 30.

Thanks to zazie.