As We Approach Mother's Day

Thursday, May 9, 2019

This time of year, as we approach Mother’s Day, is bittersweet, to all of us whose mothers no longer walk with us here on earth.  If I take a moment and pause to look at the Mother’s Day cards, I still mentally pick out the one I know my mom would love. Among the images I’d be looking for? Some of my mom’s favorite things, those I knew my mother would love. Ideally mom’s card would include lilacs, bluebirds and a cup of steaming hot coffee. Huge bouquets of lilacs would magically appear on mom’s kitchen table in the spring. Every Mother’s Day, dad would bring mom two flats of flowers for her much loved flowerbed.

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