it's mother's day

fred is a cockatiel.  he loves my daughter, and i thought he hated me.  but recently i discovered that while he allows me to feed and water him, and i may clean his cage, he bites anyone else who tries.  i guess he hates me less than the rest of the world.  this week, for the first time ever, he flew to my desk and was walking around in my work space.  i was really delighted.

how many of you graduated together?  and i like the word elated.  it's best when you are proud of yourself.

happy mothers' day!  do you celebrate?  i generally don't.  i have always been too aware of the original intent, and of the way it has been dumbed down to a hallmark holiday.  mothers are supposed to be activists, to defend their children, thereby defending the planet and all life.

because we had a long night - my daughter pinched a nerve in her neck, i am going to post the original mother's day proclamation, and be inspired...i used to read this aloud every year, a feel filled with the passion...


Arise then...women of this day!
Arise, all women who have hearts!
Whether your baptism be of water or of tears!
Say firmly:
"We will not have questions answered by irrelevant agencies,
Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage,
For caresses and applause.
Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.
We, the women of one country,
Will be too tender of those of another country
To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs."

From the bosom of a devastated Earth a voice goes up with
Our own. It says: "Disarm! Disarm!
The sword of murder is not the balance of justice."
Blood does not wipe out dishonor,
Nor violence indicate possession.
As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil
At the
summons of war,
Let women now leave all that may be left of home
For a great and earnest day of counsel.
Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.
Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means
Whereby the great human family can live in peace...
Each bearing after his own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar,
But of God -
In the name of womanhood and humanity, I earnestly ask
That a general congress of women without limit of nationality,
May be appointed and held at someplace deemed most convenient
And the earliest period consistent with its objects,
To promote the alliance of the different nationalities,
The amicable settlement of international questions,
The great and general interests of peace.




Yes!!!   love, clare