Mother's Day

So it's coming up on Mother's Day. I remember, a hundred years ago, that boys and men wore red carnations if they had "lost" their mothers. That's probably gone the way of so many other things, but was one of those nice gestures we seem to have no time for any more.

So Happy Mother's Day to mothers of all sorts, with approprriate thanks for all they did to birth and raise us. Without them, well, we'd be in a sorry state.