For Mother

Everyone has something to say about Mothers. Abe Lincoln said, “All that I am or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” Tenneva Jordan said, “A mother is a person who, seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.” Milton Berle said if evolution really worked, why was it that mothers only have two hands. Dorothy Parker said “The best way to keep children home is to make the atmosphere pleasant – and let the air out of the tires.” And one of the Golden Girls said “It’s not easy being a mother. If it were, fathers would do it.”

But one of our favorite quotes about Mothers is from Zora Neal Hurston, who wrote “Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at de sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.”

It’s one of the ultimate universal truths. We all have a mother. Some amazing, some okay, some that are the bane of our existence. Regardless of how we feel about it, we all have a mother. And Glena and Sabrina were lucky enough to have their very own special “Mother.”

Glena and Sabrina's great-grandmother - known to everyone as "Mother"
Glena and Sabrina’s great-grandmother – known to everyone as “Mother”

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