The Guild 5-6-2003 Don't forget Mom!

[BigWaveBetty]

MOTHER'S DAY - MAY 11

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Good Morning!

[pubmom]

MOTHERHOOD QUOTATIONS

"All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother." -- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

"God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers." -- Jewish proverb

"Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother." -- Lin Yutang

"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness." -- Honore' de Balzac (1799-1850)

"My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her." -- George Washington (1732-1799)

"By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class." -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1907- )

"The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom." -- Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)

"Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)

"I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life." -- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother." --Author Unknown

[Iowa Granny]

Is that June Cleaver at the top of the page?

Good Morning to All. Do you ever wonder if some warped soul registered at FR as All?

[pubmom]

LOL, I hadn't really considered it until now.

[BigWaveBetty]

Those were very nice quotes pubmom,
thanks for posting them.

IG, you're not going to believe it...

All
Since Nov 9, 2001

Link to All! :-)

[Iowa Granny]

Well, I'd certainly hate to clear out 'that' Comment Box.

From now on, I will always ping 'All' to each of my posts. Don't you just have to wonder about the personality who selected that screen name?

[lodwick]

The earliest Mother's Day celebrations can be traced back to the spring celebrations of ancient Greece in honor of Rhea, the Mother of the Gods. During the 1600's, England celebrated a day called "Mothering Sunday". Celebrated on the 4th Sunday of Lent (the 40 day period leading up to Easter*), "Mothering Sunday" honored the mothers of England.

[lodwick]

The earliest Mother's Day celebrations can be traced back to the spring celebrations of ancient Greece in honor of Rhea, the Mother of the Gods. During the 1600's, England celebrated a day called "Mothering Sunday". Celebrated on the 4th Sunday of Lent (the 40 day period leading up to Easter*), "Mothering Sunday" honored the mothers of England.

[lodwick]

During this time many of the England's poor worked as servants for the wealthy. As most jobs were located far from their homes, the servants would live at the houses of their employers. On Mothering Sunday the servants would have the day off and were encouraged to return home and spend the day with their mothers. A special cake, called the mothering cake, was often brought along to provide a festive touch.

As Christianity spread throughout Europe the celebration changed to honor the "Mother Church" - the spiritual power that gave them life and protected them from harm. Over time the church festival blended with the Mothering Sunday celebration . People began honoring their mothers as well as the church.

In the United States Mother's Day was first suggested in 1872 by Julia Ward Howe (who wrote the words to the Battle hymn of the Republic) as a day dedicated to peace. Ms. Howe would hold organized Mother's Day meetings in Boston, Mass ever year.

In 1907 Ana Jarvis, from Philadelphia, began a campaign to establish a national Mother's Day. Ms. Jarvis persuaded her mother's church in Grafton, West Virginia to celebrate Mother's Day on the second anniversary of her mother's death, the 2nd Sunday of May. By the next year Mother's Day was also celebrated in Philadelphia.

Ms. Jarvis and her supporters began to write to ministers, businessman, and politicians in their quest to establish a national Mother's Day. It was successful as by 1911 Mother's Day was celebrated in almost every state. President Woodrow Wilson, in 1914, made the official announcement proclaiming Mother's Day as a national holiday that was to be held each year on the 2nd Sunday of May.

While many countries of the world celebrate their own Mother's Day at different times throughout the year, there are some countries such as Denmark, Finland, Italy, Turkey, Australia, and Belgium which also celebrate Mother's Day on the second Sunday of May.

[lodwick]

Thank You, Mom

[BigWaveBetty]

It could be a lonely sort or perhaps when John was setting things up he created a 'poster' named ALL so we could use it to address everyone (there are no posts To: ALL from anyone on that page).

I remember for a while the To: line wouldn't take an ALL and shortly after John was finished messing around with things ALL was usable again.

It's a mystery alright! Now all we need is some meddling kids!

[mountaineer]

Sorry to get off the topic of motherhood, but wanted to pursue a story you posted at the end of the last thread:

HILLARY - not Duff or Swank - honored her former White House press chief Lisa Caputo's mommyhood with a party of 100 of their nearest and powerfulest. The hostess was another friend Norma Asnes.

My first thought, of course, was that Norma footed the entire bill for this baby shower. I mean, really, Hillary? Then I was trying to remember the references to Norma Asnes when it occurred to me - the Lewinsky connection.

Norma was the one who "invited" Tripp to her place and, I suppose, tried to persuade her to keep her mouth shut.

From the Starr Report:

TRIPP told LEWINSKY about TRIPP's visit with NORMA ASNES. According to TRIPP, a friend of ASNES's told TRIPP to get a job in New York in the public relations field. ...

On January 14, 1998, LEWINSKY called TRIPP from a pay phone at the WATERGATE Apartments and told TRIPP to have NORMA * ASNES get TRIPP a Democratic attorney.

And this, from the Tripp-Lewinsky tapes:

MS LEWINSKY (Speaking of Norma Asnes, close friend of Hillary Clinton): Worst case scenario. You could-- if you come out smelling like roses, okay? You could go to Norma and say "Listen, you know, I"--and say to her-- you could say to her--

MS TRIPP: I cant say-- I can never say to anybody. You could never say-- if you did this, you could never say to anybody.

MS LEWINSKY: That what? That you lied under oath?

MS TRIPP: No. She'd-- that would give her information that could go to Hillary. Do you realize that?

MS LEWINSKY: But if its--but if he knows that I told her about what's-her-face--

MS TRIPP: But she is Hillary's friend.

MS. LEWINSKY: Right. Well, okay. What I'm trying to say-- what I-- the gist of what I'm getting at--

MS TRIPP: So just let me finish my thought.

MS LEWINSKY: Okay

MS TRIPP: If that were ever to happen and I went to Norma and said, "I lied under oath. You have to take care of me, or someone has to"--

MS LEWINSKY: Mm-hmm.

MS TRIPP: --then they know what I was asked about. So, therefore-- do you see what I'm saying? It think it comes back full circle. I don't want-- I don't-- I think that's ridiculous.

MS LEWINSKY: Okay. All IM saying is that if you--

MS TRIPP: There's nobody. Who?

MS LEWINSKY: I think if you--no. I think Norma would help you.

MS TRIPP: (Sighing)

MS LEWINSKY: I think she would.

[mountaineer]

More on our favorite wacky would-be first lady:

Fabulously wealthy Teresa Heinz, wife of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, dishes an earful to writer Lisa DePaulo in the upcoming issue of Elle magazine -- such as her ambivalence about taking her second husband's surname and her requirement of a prenuptial agreement with the 59-year-old Massachusetts senator, whom she wed in 1995.

"Now, politically, it's going to be Teresa Heinz Kerry, but I don't give a [bleep], you know?" explains the 64-year-old Heinz, who generally uses the surname of the late senator John Heinz (R-Pa.), who was killed in a 1991 plane crash. "There are other things to worry about."

Including:

• Her tendency to fidget, glower or interrupt, instead of simply gaze, when her husband gives a speech. "They think I should always be looking adoringly at him," she sighs.

• Her financial arrangement with Kerry: "Everybody has a prenup. You have to have a prenup. You've got to have a prenup. You could be as generous or as sensitive as you want. But you have to have a prenup."

• Her regular Botox treatments: "In fact I need another one. Soon." As for cosmetic surgery, "when I need it, I'll get it." She confides that she'd like to fix her nose, which has gotten "bulbier" with age.

• Her views on marital fidelity: "I don't think I could have coped so well" with a mate's philandering as Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) has. "I used to say to my husband, my late husband, 'If you ever get something I'll maim you. Not kill you, just maim you.' And we'd laugh, laugh, laugh." Heinz adds that she has never had any reason to suspect either of her husbands. "Not for one day, because what I expect of them, they have a right to expect of me. Maybe I'm into 18-year-olds." At which Heinz's campaign handler, former political journalist Chris Black, cautioned bleakly: "That was a joke."

The candidate, meanwhile, praises the prospective first lady as "nurturing and incredibly loving, and fun, zany, witty. . . . Definitely sexy. Very earthy, sexy, European. She knows how to speak with her eyes."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17760-2003May5.html

[mountaineer]

Ever wonder what they talk about up there on the podium, when a President is being sworn in? It's not always nice, according to Bill Clinton's former senior adviser, Sidney Blumenthal. His new book, "The Clinton Wars," is excerpted this week on Salon.com.

The former White House insider reports that Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist was "chilly" toward Clinton during his second inauguration in January 1997.

Blumenthal recounts the scene: "[Rehnquist] was grim while swearing in Clinton to his second term, with Hillary [Clinton] holding the Bible. Now Rehnquist turned to speak to him. 'Good luck,' he said. 'You'll need it.'

'They're going to screw you on the Paula Jones case,' Hillary said.

The President waved to the crowd."

The case of Paula Corbin Jones vs. William Jefferson Clinton had gone to the Supreme Court on Jan. 13, 1997, exactly one week before.

"The Clinton Wars" will be published May 20 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/81149p-74395c.html

[Iowa Granny]

Mothers Path of Life

The young mother set her foot on the path of life. "Is this the long way?" she asked.

And the guide said: "Yes, and the way is hard. And you will be old before you reach the end of it. But the end will be better than the beginning."

But the young mother was happy, and she would not believe that anything could be better than these years. So she played with her children,and gathered flowers for them along the way, and bathed them in the clear streams; and the sun shone on them, and the young Mother cried,"Nothing will ever be lovelier than this."

Then the night came, and the storm, and the path was dark, and the children shook with fear and cold, and the mother drew them close and covered them with her mantle, and the children said, "Mother, we are not afraid,for you are near, and no harm can come."

And the morning came, and there was a hill ahead, and the children climbed and grew weary, and the mother was weary. But at all times she said to the children," A little patience and we are there." So the children climbed, and when they reached the top they said, "Mother,we would not have done it without you."

And the mother, when she lay down at night looked up at the stars and said,"This is a better day than the last, for my children have learned fortitude in the face of hardness. Yesterday I gave them courage. Today, I have given them strength."

And the next day came strange clouds which darkened the earth, clouds of war and hate and evil, and the children groped and stumbled,and the mother said: "Look up. Lift your eyes to the light." And the children looked and saw above the clouds an everlasting glory, and it guided them beyond the darkness.

And that night the Mother said, "This is the best day of all, for I have shown my children God."

And the days went on, and the weeks and the months and the years, and the mother grew old and she was little and bent. But her children were tall and strong, and walked with courage.

And when the way was rough, they lifted her, for she was as light as a feather; and at last they came to a hill, and beyond they could see a shining road and golden gates flung wide.

And mother said: "I have reached the end of my journey. And now I know the end is better than the beginning, for my children can walk alone, and their children after them."

And the children said, "You will always walk with us, Mother, even when you have gone through the gates." And they stood and watched her as she went on alone, and the gates closed after her. And they said: "We cannot see her, but she is with us still. A Mother like ours is more than a memory. She is a living presence."

Your Mother is always with you. She's the whisper of the leaves as you walk down the street; she's the smell of bleach in your freshly laundered socks; she's the cool hand on your brow when you're not well.

Your Mother lives inside your laughter. And she's crystallized in every tear drop. She's the place you came from, your first home; and she's the map you follow with every step you take. She's your first love and your first heartbreak, and nothing on earth can separate you... Not time, not space...not even death!

[BigWaveBetty]

Thank you for the wonderful history of Mothers Day.

[mountaineer]

The little railroad town of Grafton, W.Va., is quite proud of its status as the "birthplace of Mother's Day."

The Mother's Day Church

In nearby Webster is the birthplace and childhood home of Anna Jarvis, founder of Mothers Day. The restored Civil War era home is open to the public and houses a museum of Mothers Day and Civil War history. The wooden two-story structure was built in 1854 by Granville Jarvis and occupied by him and his family for eleven years through on of American history's most exciting periods. The house became a focal point of the Civil War when General McClellan used it as his headquarters and his troops were encamped across from the house in what is now a historic park.

The Anna Jarvis Home and Museum

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[BigWaveBetty]

Your Mother lives inside your laughter. And she's crystallized in every tear drop. She's the place you came from, your first home; and she's the map you follow with every step you take. She's your first love and your first heartbreak, and nothing on earth can separate you... Not time, not space...not even death!

Beautiful, hearts forever bound.

[BigWaveBetty]

Now Rehnquist turned to speak to him. 'Good luck,' he said. 'You'll need it.'

I want to question this Blumenthal recounting. Somehow Rehnquist doesn't seem the type to lower himself.

The evil trio got together and made up stories to make it look like the 'toons couldn't get a break. Nobody liked them, they were victims! Oh please.