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  Since May is Mothering Month, I intend to post a diverse array of articles for the rest of the month, about and for mothers.   Motherlines By Mary Saaracino, CO   Margaret On the day I was born you nearly bled to death perhaps a sign that our lives were marked for strife but…

  Here is a beautiful response to Julia Ward Howe’s Mother’s Day Proclamation by one of our own sister Queens.   A MOTHER’S DAY PROCLAMATION By Queen Mary Immaculata Saracino, CO “Arise, then, women of this day! Arise all women who have heart, whether our baptism be that of water or tears!” -Mother’s Day Proclamation,…

  This is the original Mother’s Day proclamation, written by Julia Ward Howe, famed writer of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” in Boston, 1870 when she was 51 years old. It was an impassioned appeal to womanhood to rise against war in response to the barbarity of the Franco-Prussian War. She was appalled by…

  May Day is an old European spring fertility and copulation festival held in honor of the trees and their mistresses, the virgin vegetation goddesses. Celebrated as Floralia by the Romans, Walpurgisnacht by the Teutons, Whitsuntide by the Dutch, and Beltane by the Celts, it centered on romantic devotions to the nubile goddesses of spring,…
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