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Sunday, May 08, 2022

Mother’s Day

Mothers never die…. They always live in the hearts of their children…. though you are not present physically to be with me but you live with me each day in each breath that I take…

The taxing world changes from year to year, our lives from day to day, but the love and memory of you, shall never pass away.





French nun Sister Andre claims title of world’s oldest person

A French nun who recently celebrated her 118th birthday with her traditional port-and-chocolate cocktail is now the world's oldest known person, following the death announced on Monday of a Japanese woman one year her senior.

My Mum was born in 1917 so she would have been 104 in February and Tato would have been 111


Penny Wincer, an interiors and lifestyle photographer, shared an important Instagram post earlier this week highlighting what a difficult time Mother's Day is for some 

She wrote: "Mother’s Day week can be hard. Actually it can be a bit shit. Inundated with emails and posts from brands as well as people asking you what your plans are for the day. It’s funny, I don’t really think of it as a day for me as a parent, but a day for my mother who is no longer here. I know many whose mothers have died. I have friends who have had to stop all contact with their mothers. I know those who don’t know if they’ll ever hold a baby in their arms."

There are so many reasons why Mother's Day might be hard, someone having lost their mother or a couple trying hard to conceive. Maybe you have joint custody of your children and Mothering Sunday isn't your weekend? 

Why we need to celebrate 'Others Day' this Sunday Mother's Day is the hardest time of year for some


I Cherish My Grief for the Mother I Never Expected to Have There is grief that strangles you and grief that holds you


A rich child  buying you something means nothing 

A Busy child giving you their time means everything 

Mother’s Day


Thousands of pelicans flock to NSW's central west as an 'extraordinary' event unfolds


Dutch boy, 4, takes mother’s car for a joyride BBC


Emily Dickinson’s Botanical Inspiration: Stunning 19th-Century Flower Paintings by the Forgotten The marginalia 


Trevor Noah’s speech at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner was funny yet inspiring

It perfectly roasted those in attendance and in the news but also closed with a reminder of the important role of a free press.


What Does It Mean To Make Art?

Implicit in the phrase “the artist’s life” is the idea that this is a life apart. We are not so quick to rhapsodize about the insurance agent’s life or the plumber’s

The Ukrainian Soprano Who Replaced Netrebko At The Met Wraps Herself In Her Flag

Liudmyla Monastyrska, who replaced Russian superstar Anna Netrebko at the Met in Turandot, wrapped herself in a Ukrainian flag for her curtain call. "'I wanted to help however I could,' Ms. Monastyrska said." - The New York Times


How 20th Century Literary Analysis Came To Be

In the prewar period, university professors were apt to make vague aesthetic judgments about a book’s “beauty” or “soul” before lobbing in a few comments about the author’s mother or the publishing practices of the time. Richards’s students, by contrast, were asked to exclude all such background blather. - The Guardian


It's been said that every intellectual forced to emigrate is mutilated. So it was with Czes?aw Mi?osz in California Immigrants  


Disch refers to Epstein’s essay “Who Killed Poetry?” in the August 1988 issue of Commentary. Read today, Epstein’s post-mortem seems self-evident, and the subsequent thirty-four years have confirmed his judgments. The mediocre careerists have won, though some good work still gets published. In recent years we’ve seen R.L. Barth’s Learning War, Maryann Corbett’s In Code, Dick Davis’ Love in Another Language, Boris Dralyuk’s My Hollywood and Other Poems, A.M. Juster’s Wonder and Wrath, Aaron Poochigian’s American Divine and A.E. Stallings’ Like. I list only books I can see on my shelves as I write.
Begin to Memorize Again'


Another Grand Sweeping Narrative Of History (and It’s Optimistic)

Whether or not you have a “future-oriented mindset” – in other words, how much money you save and how likely you are to invest in your education – can, he argues, be partly traced to what kinds of crops grew well in your ancestral homelands. - The Guardian


This undated photo shows a marble bust that a Texas woman bought for about $US35 from an op-shop.
History

Op-shop sold a bust for $US34.99 is an ancient Roman relic

  • by Michael Levenson




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