Anthesis
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Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

Robert F. Kennedy, June 6, 1966
Cape Town, South Africa

Prom Impending
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Awaiting the Moth
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"Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning; that there is always another dawn risen on mid-noon, and under every deep a lower deep opens."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Patience
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Original photo by Becky Mahon.

Thought for the Day:
"The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me."
George Bernard Shaw

Almost Soup
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Intensity
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Confusion
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The Kiss
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Points of View
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Mother's Day was in part inspired by a woman named Julia Ward Howe who nursed the wounded durintg the American Civil War. In 1870 she started a crusade to institute a Mother's Day as a Day for Peace.

"Arise all women who have hearts, say firmly: Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy, and patience. We women of one country will be too tender of those of another country to allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs. In the name of womanhood and of humanity, take counsel with each other as the means whereby the great human family can live in peace..."
Julia Ward Howe

What a shame that we mothers have allowed PEACE to be removed from our symbolic day.