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Mother's Day: a Time for Peace and Pride

May 9, 2015

author: Jeanette Mesite Frem

I often wonder, as I hear all the ads on my local NPR station encouraging us to purchase flowers to be sent to our mothers for Mother’s Day, why flowers are involved. They don’t last very long. Why not potted trees…the symbolism is stronger there: the apple not falling far from the tree or how we are rooted in our families but yet branch out?

We send cards and...