Wow, pizza would be great. I got a fight and withdrawal of the offer to take me out for a Greek salad, which I was to pay for. Man, the Vietnam War was tough on the soldiers.
(But the Target cart retrieval guy wished me a good one.)
...Oh, good news: dinner's back on. Gotta get my wallet.
Actually the pizza was lousy (my opinion) but Mrs. R. thoroughly enjoyed it. She also got books (one of which I used for a post tomorrow) so she did OK. After 35 years you mellow out a bit on the presents and dinners but not much else.
Holidays are part and parcel of destroying the earth. They are events where we feel obligated to give gifts and give things that often aren't wanted and almost always not needed. Thus we use up the resources of the world for no gain other than to obligate the gifted to do the same.
I gave up holidays for lent and have never looked back :) Harder to convince others to do the same towards me. But it is done and that piece of using up earth's decreasing bounty is done. What a relief to not have to think up a gift and shop for it. I highly recommend it.
K-speaking of Lent.... Honour thy father and mother. What better way. Yep, if you believe then so let it be said and done. Dont worry about the good old Earth. Just as she selected the Dino's for extinction, we are just waiting our turn. If we survive we will have to evolve or de-evolve to the situation and the food supply. Talk about reduction of the carbon foot print...BF may just end the discussion. Global warming is in direct relation to the number of humans so is it a billion little heaters more than there were 20 years ago, or the effects of their existence.
Stick with it though and hope you arent on the list or if you believe, then hope that you are on the list.
MRK, my mother is dead, I honor my father by visiting him and giving his wife relief from caring for him 24/7. I ask my kids to do nothing for me - they didn't ask to be born. They owe me nothing. I owed them as good an upbringing as I could manage, which is done and since they are fine kids I guess I did OK.
I hope for peaceful non-existence after whatever end takes me. I experience it every night when I sleep and it is just fine.
It was funny yesterday how many people said "Happy mothers day" to me, since I don't have any children. I guess if you are female and nearing forty everybody just assumes.
How easily we loose sight - here is some history on Mother's Day and its original anti war stance. Anna Jarvis the 2nd and more successful founder of mother's day came to hate the commercialization of the day - "Anna Jarvis became enraged. She believed that the day's sentiment was being sacrificed at the expense of greed and profit. In 1923 she filed a lawsuit to stop a Mother's Day festival, and was even arrested for disturbing the peace at a convention selling carnations for a war mother's group. "
I can just see old Jehovah thinking ahead and admonishing 1st world children to honor their mothers by buying flowers grown and packaged by poor South American mothers who are just trying to earn enough food to feed their children. What a wise God.
http://mothers-day.123holiday.net/
Mother's Day History
Contrary to popular belief, Mother's Day was not conceived and fine-tuned in the boardroom of Hallmark. The earliest tributes to mothers date back to the annual spring festival the Greeks dedicated to Rhea, the mother of many deities, and to the offerings ancient Romans made to their Great Mother of Gods, Cybele. Christians celebrated this festival on the fourth Sunday in Lent in honor of Mary, mother of Christ. In England this holiday was expanded to include all mothers and was called Mothering Sunday.
In the United States, Mother's Day started nearly 150 years ago, when Anna Jarvis, an Appalachian homemaker, organized a day to raise awareness of poor health conditions in her community, a cause she believed would be best advocated by mothers. She called it "Mother's Work Day."
Fifteen years later, Julia Ward Howe, a Boston poet, pacifist, suffragist, and author of the lyrics to the "Battle Hymn of the Republic," organized a day encouraging mothers to rally for peace, since she believed they bore the loss of human life more harshly than anyone else.
In 1905 when Anna Jarvis died, her daughter, also named Anna, began a campaign to memorialize the life work of her mother. Legend has it that young Anna remembered a Sunday school lesson that her mother gave in which she said, "I hope and pray that someone, sometime, will found a memorial mother's day. There are many days for men, but none for mothers."
Anna began to lobby prominent businessmen like John Wannamaker, and politicians including Presidents Taft and Roosevelt to support her campaign to create a special day to honor mothers. At one of the first services organized to celebrate Anna's mother in 1908, at her church in West Virginia, Anna handed out her mother's favorite flower, the white carnation. Five years later, the House of Representatives adopted a resolution calling for officials of the federal government to wear white carnations on Mother's Day. In 1914 Anna's hard work paid off when Woodrow Wilson signed a bill recognizing Mother's Day as a national holiday.
At first, people observed Mother's Day by attending church, writing letters to their mothers, and eventually, by sending cards, presents, and flowers. With the increasing gift-giving activity associated with Mother's Day, Anna Jarvis became enraged. She believed that the day's sentiment was being sacrificed at the expense of greed and profit. In 1923 she filed a lawsuit to stop a Mother's Day festival, and was even arrested for disturbing the peace at a convention selling carnations for a war mother's group. Before her death in 1948, Jarvis is said to have confessed that she regretted ever starting the mother's day tradition.
Despite Jarvis's misgivings, Mother's Day has flourished in the United States. In fact, the second Sunday of May has become the most popular day of the year to dine out, and telephone lines record their highest traffic, as sons and daughters everywhere take advantage of this day to honor and to express appreciation of their mothers
Wow, pizza would be great. I got a fight and withdrawal of the offer to take me out for a Greek salad, which I was to pay for. Man, the Vietnam War was tough on the soldiers.
(But the Target cart retrieval guy wished me a good one.)
...Oh, good news: dinner's back on. Gotta get my wallet.
Happy Mother's Day!
Actually the pizza was lousy (my opinion) but Mrs. R. thoroughly enjoyed it. She also got books (one of which I used for a post tomorrow) so she did OK. After 35 years you mellow out a bit on the presents and dinners but not much else.
Books? From you? Wot a shock.....
Yeah, I know. So predictable.
Holidays are part and parcel of destroying the earth. They are events where we feel obligated to give gifts and give things that often aren't wanted and almost always not needed. Thus we use up the resources of the world for no gain other than to obligate the gifted to do the same.
I gave up holidays for lent and have never looked back :) Harder to convince others to do the same towards me. But it is done and that piece of using up earth's decreasing bounty is done. What a relief to not have to think up a gift and shop for it. I highly recommend it.
K-speaking of Lent.... Honour thy father and mother. What better way. Yep, if you believe then so let it be said and done. Dont worry about the good old Earth. Just as she selected the Dino's for extinction, we are just waiting our turn. If we survive we will have to evolve or de-evolve to the situation and the food supply. Talk about reduction of the carbon foot print...BF may just end the discussion. Global warming is in direct relation to the number of humans so is it a billion little heaters more than there were 20 years ago, or the effects of their existence.
Stick with it though and hope you arent on the list or if you believe, then hope that you are on the list.
MRK, my mother is dead, I honor my father by visiting him and giving his wife relief from caring for him 24/7. I ask my kids to do nothing for me - they didn't ask to be born. They owe me nothing. I owed them as good an upbringing as I could manage, which is done and since they are fine kids I guess I did OK.
I hope for peaceful non-existence after whatever end takes me. I experience it every night when I sleep and it is just fine.
It was funny yesterday how many people said "Happy mothers day" to me, since I don't have any children. I guess if you are female and nearing forty everybody just assumes.
How easily we loose sight - here is some history on Mother's Day and its original anti war stance. Anna Jarvis the 2nd and more successful founder of mother's day came to hate the commercialization of the day - "Anna Jarvis became enraged. She believed that the day's sentiment was being sacrificed at the expense of greed and profit. In 1923 she filed a lawsuit to stop a Mother's Day festival, and was even arrested for disturbing the peace at a convention selling carnations for a war mother's group. "
I can just see old Jehovah thinking ahead and admonishing 1st world children to honor their mothers by buying flowers grown and packaged by poor South American mothers who are just trying to earn enough food to feed their children. What a wise God.
http://mothers-day.123holiday.net/
Mother's Day History
Contrary to popular belief, Mother's Day was not conceived and fine-tuned in the boardroom of Hallmark. The earliest tributes to mothers date back to the annual spring festival the Greeks dedicated to Rhea, the mother of many deities, and to the offerings ancient Romans made to their Great Mother of Gods, Cybele. Christians celebrated this festival on the fourth Sunday in Lent in honor of Mary, mother of Christ. In England this holiday was expanded to include all mothers and was called Mothering Sunday.
In the United States, Mother's Day started nearly 150 years ago, when Anna Jarvis, an Appalachian homemaker, organized a day to raise awareness of poor health conditions in her community, a cause she believed would be best advocated by mothers. She called it "Mother's Work Day."
Fifteen years later, Julia Ward Howe, a Boston poet, pacifist, suffragist, and author of the lyrics to the "Battle Hymn of the Republic," organized a day encouraging mothers to rally for peace, since she believed they bore the loss of human life more harshly than anyone else.
In 1905 when Anna Jarvis died, her daughter, also named Anna, began a campaign to memorialize the life work of her mother. Legend has it that young Anna remembered a Sunday school lesson that her mother gave in which she said, "I hope and pray that someone, sometime, will found a memorial mother's day. There are many days for men, but none for mothers."
Anna began to lobby prominent businessmen like John Wannamaker, and politicians including Presidents Taft and Roosevelt to support her campaign to create a special day to honor mothers. At one of the first services organized to celebrate Anna's mother in 1908, at her church in West Virginia, Anna handed out her mother's favorite flower, the white carnation. Five years later, the House of Representatives adopted a resolution calling for officials of the federal government to wear white carnations on Mother's Day. In 1914 Anna's hard work paid off when Woodrow Wilson signed a bill recognizing Mother's Day as a national holiday.
At first, people observed Mother's Day by attending church, writing letters to their mothers, and eventually, by sending cards, presents, and flowers. With the increasing gift-giving activity associated with Mother's Day, Anna Jarvis became enraged. She believed that the day's sentiment was being sacrificed at the expense of greed and profit. In 1923 she filed a lawsuit to stop a Mother's Day festival, and was even arrested for disturbing the peace at a convention selling carnations for a war mother's group. Before her death in 1948, Jarvis is said to have confessed that she regretted ever starting the mother's day tradition.
Despite Jarvis's misgivings, Mother's Day has flourished in the United States. In fact, the second Sunday of May has become the most popular day of the year to dine out, and telephone lines record their highest traffic, as sons and daughters everywhere take advantage of this day to honor and to express appreciation of their mothers