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Queen Mother’s Day
By
Donna Henes
What an extraordinarily exciting and gorgeous time of the year spring is. Life is bursting out all over. Buds, blossoms, and babies everywhere! Is it any wonder that May is the month of the Mother? Mothers are the progenitors of life and the providers of sustenance for the living. In this season of teeming birth…
A Mother’s Day Proclamation Poem
By
Donna Henes
Here is a beautiful response to Julia Ward Howe’s Mother’s Day Proclamation by one of our own sister Queens. A MOTHER’S DAY PROCLAMATION By Queen Mary Immaculata Saracino, CO “Arise, then, women of this day! Arise all women who have heart, whether our baptism be that of water or tears!” -Mother’s Day Proclamation,…
Mother’s Day Proclamation
By
Donna Henes
This is the original Mother’s Day proclamation, written by Julia Ward Howe, famed writer of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” in Boston, 1870 when she was 51 years old. It was an impassioned appeal to womanhood to rise against war in response to the barbarity of the Franco-Prussian War. She was appalled by…
Time to Mother Ourselves in Midlife
By
Donna Henes
My dear sister Queens, As you must have noticed, I have been absent for two weeks. My contract with Beliefnet expired at the end of April, but I am delighted to say that I have been invited to return to this successful blog. The transition between contracts took some time, but now I am back!…
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