Mother's Day Alone

One woman, Anna Jarvis, started Mother’s Day to honor her own activist mother, and in 1914 President Woodrow Wilson made it a national holiday. The 1924 “DAUGHTER” poem links mother to daughter and conveys the mother’s heartfelt prayer. The blessing reads: “May your feet tread the roads of a long delight. May your eyes see beauty. May your soul see light: May your lips know a smile. And your heart a song. And love go with you your whole life long.”

My love for my daughter Alix transcends time and space. It connects with her in heaven and goes with Alix “your whole life long,” including her eternal life. But it should have been me one day in the afterlife and her on earth rather than the reverse. And we should be together for Mother’s Day to hug and profess our love.

Are you missing someone for Mother’s Day?