When I told my 95-year-old mother I planned to stop by on Mother's Day, she asked, "Are you doing it for me or are you doing it for yourself?"
This was at the end of a ten minute soliloquy- prompted by what she thought to be impudence on my part- in which she enumerated all the things she regretted doing in her life. I wasn't included by name, but an overly sensitive individual could have made that inference due to associations with certain other events and individuals she referenced.
It should have been obvious I wasn't planning to return to her house on Mother's Day because I enjoyed listening to her ramblings of what she perceived to be her past dystopian existence. I suspect my anticipated visit wouldn't be the highpoint of her day, either.
I'm going to see her on Mother's Day because that's what a son does. Especially when you're an only child. In this time of societal breakdown, it's important to uphold tradition. I respect the office, if you know what I mean.
Sunday is Mother's Day. Grandmothers are a subset of that cohort. I've done mother-related quotes in the past; this year, let's go with grandmas.
And don't forget to at least call Mom on Sunday. At best, she'll appreciate the sentiment. At worst, she'll realize everyone makes mistakes.
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A grandmother will put a sweater on you when she is cold, feed you when
she is hungry, and put you to bed when she is tired.
-Erma Bombeck
A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.
-Florence
King
Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's
married to a grandmother.
-G. Norman Collie
If nothing is going well, call your grandmother.
-Variously
attributed
Just about the time a woman thinks her job is done, she becomes a
grandmother.
-Edward H. Dreschnack
Let's bring back grandmothers! A real family consists of three
generations. It's time Americans stopped worrying about interference and
being a burden on the children and regrouped under one roof.
-Florence
King
Grandmamma had been the last connection to our past. I had understood
her as some referent moral authority to whom we paid no heed, but by
whose judgments we measured our waywardness.
-E.L. Doctorow
My grandmother gave me five dollars and said, 'Don't tell your mother.'
I told her, 'It's going to cost you more than that.'
-Steven Wright
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty.
She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
-Ellen
DeGeneris
My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three husbands. Two of
them were just napping.
-Rita Rudner
My grandmother was insane. She had pierced hearing aids.
-Steven
Wright
To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother.
-Victor Hugo
Grandmas are moms with lots of frosting.
-Variously attributed
Whoever said 'Grandmas are moms with lots of frosting' obviously never
licked one.
-John Alejandro King (The Covert Comic)
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Remembering Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985):
On the evening of October 9, 1985, Welles recorded his final interview on the syndicated TV program The Merv Griffin Show, appearing with biographer Barbara Leaming. "Both Welles and Leaming talked of Welles's life, and the segment was a nostalgic interlude," wrote biographer Frank Brady. Welles returned to his house in Hollywood and worked into the early hours typing stage directions for the project he and Gary Graver were planning to shoot at UCLA the following day. Welles died sometime on the morning of October 10, following a heart attack.
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The Hot Topic:
"'The unborn" are a convenient group of people to advocate for. They
never make demands of you; they are morally uncomplicated, unlike the
incarcerated, addicted, or the chronically poor; they don't resent your
condescension or complain that you are not politically correct; unlike
widows, they don't ask you to question patriarchy; unlike orphans, they
don't need money, education, or childcare; unlike aliens, they don't
bring all that racial, cultural, and religious baggage that you dislike;
they allow you to feel good about yourself without any work at creating
or maintaining relationships; and when they are born, you can forget
about them, because they cease to be unborn. It's almost as if, by being
born, they have died to you. You can love the unborn and advocate for
them without substantially challenging your own wealth, power, or
privilege, without re- imagining social structures, apologizing, or
making reparations to anyone. They are, in short, the perfect people to
love if you want to claim you love Jesus but actually dislike people who
breathe. Prisoners? Immigrants? The sick? The poor? Widows? Orphans? All
the groups that are specifically mentioned in the Bible? They all get
thrown under the bus for the unborn."'
-from a 2018 social media
post by Dave Barnhart, a pastor at Saint Junia United Methodist Church
in Birmingham, Alabama.
What are Alito's primary sources for suggesting the criminalization of women for terminating their pregnancies? One is a 1732 journal called Gentleman's Magazine. (via Slate)
The GOP doesn't want your 12 year old daughter to read "The Handmaid's
Tale". But they are absolutely giddy at the thought of making her live
it.
-@dan6654
For all those worried about "The Handmaid's Tale" coming true, there had
to be a plague first that disrupted everything so... oh, shit.
-@iamisaided
In honor of Mother's Day, the Republican Party is trying to force more
women to be mothers.
-@middleageriot
Don't like abortions?
Just ignore them like you do kids in foster
care.
-@TrisResists
"Judges can't just wake up one day and say I have an agenda - I like
guns, I hate guns, I like abortion, I hate abortion - and walk in like a
royal queen and impose their will on the world. It's not the law of Amy.
It's the law of the American people."
-Amy Coney Barrett,
10/13/20
Categories: Abortion, Amy Coney Barrett, Dave Barnhart, Grandmothers, Mother's Day, Republicans, Roe v Wade, Supreme Court, The Handmaid's Tale
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