“Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.” -Wendy Wasserstein
May21
May17
Where to Find God
“So many people spend their lives trying to ‘find God’ but never look to themselves or each other in order to SEE Him.” -Morgan Garriss
May14
Give the Gift of Affection
“Expressed affection is the best of all methods to use when you want to light a glow in someone’s heart and to feel it in your own.” – Ruth Stafford Peale
May13
Scandalous Wisdom
“Breasts are a scandal because they shatter the border between motherhood and sexuality.”
― Iris Marion Young
May12
Mother Memories
“The mother memories that are closest to my heart are the small gentle ones that I have carried over from the days of my childhood. They are not profound, but they have stayed with me through life, and when I am very old, they will still be near . . . Memories of mother drying my tears, reading aloud, cutting cookies and singing as she did, listening to prayers I said as I knelt with my forehead pressed against her knee, tucking me in bed and turning down the light. They have carried me through the years and given my life such a firm foundation that it does not rock beneath flood or tempest.”
― Margaret Sanger
Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers
who give their children lasting
“mother memories”!
May12
A Mother’s Best is Good Enough
“Even if I’m setting myself up for failure, I think it’s worth trying to be a mother who delights in who her children are, in their knock-knock jokes and earnest questions. A mother who spends less time obsessing about what will happen, or what has happened, and more time reveling in what is. A mother who doesn’t fret over failings and slights, who realizes her worries and anxieties are just thoughts, the continuous chattering and judgement of a too busy mind. A mother who doesn’t worry so much about being bad or good but just recognizes that she’s both, and neither.
A mother who does her best, and for whom that is good enough, even if, in the end, her best turns out to be, simply, not bad. ”
― Ayelet Waldman, Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace
Happy Mother’s Day!
May12
The Evolution of Motherhood
“If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?”
― Milton Berle
