Tag Archives: Mothers

The Perfect Sonnet for Mother’s Day

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Mothers with a Mind of Their Own

Anyone with an elderly parents–and anyone with a three-year-old–will related to Milne’s “James James Morrison Morrison.”

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Penelope Underrated (Like Many Mothers)

In an inspiring essay, a student draws on a long overdue appreciation of her mother to explore Penelope’s heroism in “The Odyssey.”

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Offer Healing to Every House You Enter

Mother’s Day this year has taken on special meaning as my 94-year-old mother-in-law passed away yesterday. This Julia Kasdorf poem captures what Jeanette Miksch passed along to my own Julia.

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Motherhood, an Astounding Ministry

Annunciation, Philippe de Champaigne (1644)     Spiritual Sunday Here’s a poem by Denise Levertov for Mother’s Day.  I dedicate it to my own mother and to the mother that I’m married to.  I also dedicate is to Maurine Holbert-Hogaboom, at whose funeral I read it ten days ago.  It was one of her favorites. Levertov imagines […]

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