A Second Tribute to Moms

I truly hope you had a great Mother's Day. If you had a chance to speak with your mom and made her day, 😁. If you had a chance to be called by your children and it made your day, 😁.

To the latter statement, I think I should mention my experience with the past post I made over the weekend. I want to say thank you to the many that responded the way you did for the Mother's Day email the studio sent the other day. It was a special one, for the care we put into what was said and many took notice. In case you're wondering, what was said in that Mother's Day email? Did I miss something? If you're asking that question, then you did and that's o.k. It had to do with how the email was articulated as we put special care and attention to being aware of our audience.

I began with the definition of what a mother was and it was in that very definition that included both traditional and non traditional motherhood. So often, we are quick to define what a mother is as one thing: giving birth to a child. Over the years, if you've been lucky enough to encounter the many mothers that have come through your life, you may stop to see that many of them were not the "traditional" mother so quickly defined.

One of the most famous Mothers to ever walk this earth was not a "mother" at all, yet she was mother to us all.

Mother Teresa, was a nun who never married, never had a child, yet she is "MOTHER" Teresa. Why? How did she break the mold where others did not? How did we come to accept that she is mother while others don't receive this title? I can give you a clue, but it might surprise you.

It's all in the conditioning.

From the moment we are born, we are conditioned to see what we see through the lens of which we see it. Trained in a way, like my pups, to see life from a point of view that only we can see. That's what makes us unique and that's what makes us individual. Yet there are so many ways to see the same thing.

Before Mother Teresa was named mother, she was Sister Teresa, as all nuns were named. She was given the name Mother when she decided to live amongst the poor to help them per her calling in 1946. She began the work of caring and protecting for another, and that's what made her a mother.

Mothers are everywhere. They are in all of us. Allowing to include those that fit the definition of care, love, protect, give rise to and birth, is to properly describe the nature of that individual. For the mere fact that name Nature mother, and Earth mother, why is it that we can not comprehend that other humans, without the need of extraordinary circumstances like that of Teresa, can be called mother.

Maybe it's a good time to celebrate every mom in our life, not just the paternal ones. I believe it would make for a more appreciative and inclusive world. One that favors the hard work and dedication of those that care, protect, love and nurture us.

That world, is beautiful. One we are all proud to live in.

Cheers!

JG