Mom's Day 2020 - Zooms and Quiet Times.
Heather Cox Richardson wrote about the origins of Mother's Day and it's not quite what I thought.
Her essay opens this way:
"If you google the history of Mother’s Day, the internet will tell you
that Mother’s Day began in 1908 when Anna Jarvis decided to honor her
mother. But “Mothers’ Day”—with the apostrophe not in the singular spot,
but in the plural—actually started in the 1870s, when the sheer
enormity of the death caused by the Civil War and the Franco-Prussian
War convinced American women that women must take control of politics
from the men who had permitted such carnage. Mothers’ Day was not
designed to encourage people to be nice to their mothers. It was part of
women’s effort to gain power to change modern society."
Mother's Day by Heather Cox Richardson
.... and it's quite a story.
You're welcome.
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