Today on Mother’s Day in America, families are celebrating the day with their mothers and grandmothers. While my sons will mark the day by joining me in activities I enjoy, I see no cause to celebrate motherhood.
Where is the joy of motherhood, I ask myself, when you live in fear of ICE agents separating you from your American-born children? Where is the joy in motherhood when your hours of labor value little to provide food and shelter for your children? Where is the joy in motherhood when intolerance, bullying, and hate put your children’s lives at risk? Where is the joy in motherhood when you watch your child suffer for lack of medical treatment?
Why, I ask myself, do we bring children into a hostile world that no longer fights for their right to life once they leave our womb? Why do we bring children into a world facing ecological collapse, climate disruption, and threat of nuclear war?
Speak to me not of love. Love protects and defends our young. Love nurtures.
I speak not to parents and grandparents who are doing their best, going beyond the possible. Rather, I speak to those among us who support laws and policies that favor corporations and billionaires and punish the families of our nation.
In an overpopulated world, motherhood has lost its meaning. Our uterus is for “baby-hosting.” Just ask Katy Talento on the White House team.
Three Worlds One Vision 
Reblogged this on Guyanese Online.
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Thanks for sharing my post, Cyril. Enjoy the rest of your day 🙂
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Thanks for sharing, GuyFrog 🙂
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Agreed, not much joy these days. I’m at a loss about what to do. Also, I share your concern over bringing children into the world today. Fortunately, I never had any.
Anyway, happy Mother’s Day to you Ros. 🙂
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Thanks, Robert. When I see the path we-humans have taken, I’m also at a loss.
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Therein lies the tragic reality. Took at lot of courage to state it Rosaliene.
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It sure did, Mike. I almost desisted.
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Rose, you should consider the glass to be half full, not half empty. “Adversity like the toad though venomous and ugly still yet bears a precious jewel in its head” William Shakespeare
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Consider it perhaps, but I suspect Rosaliene has already done so and sees the world for what it has become and is in danger of becoming. Right now the bullies are having their moment. Only recognition and resistance to this will prevent it from getting worse.
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Hear! Hear! and well said…
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Thank you, Sha’Tara. And perhaps, rather than looking at the glass as either half-full or half-empty, we take a moment to recall Churchill’s speech at his alma mater, Harrow School. It has been called his “never give in” speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ydi_KGXA9lk
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I couldn’t understand his speech due to the accent but I went and read it instead. Very good speech. As an “aside” regarding the “half-full, half-empty” glass, I resolved that conundrum long ago. It has nothing to do with wishful thinking, but rather simple observation. If the glass was being filled, then it’s half full. If it was being emptied, then it’s half empty. Nothing tricky about that! 😉
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Then, clearly, we are in the half-empty stage. I never would have thought of that. Thanks for the resolution, which is always welcome.
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Thanks, Dr. Stein. That is, indeed, my position.
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Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Les. Far too many families are suffering in this country for me to remain complacent. Their glass is empty.
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Quote: “Where is the joy of motherhood, I ask myself, when you live in fear of ICE agents separating you from your American-born children? Where is the joy in motherhood when your hours of labour value little to provide food and shelter for your children? Where is the joy in motherhood when intolerance, bullying, and hate put your children’s lives at risk? Where is the joy in motherhood when you watch your child suffer for lack of medical treatment?” Points well taken. Indeed, yet we must. But then, for me everyday is Mother’s Day, nor as a fake institutionalized, politicized “celebration” but as an obvious truism.
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Thanks for sharing, Sha’Tara.
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Rosaliene,
I’m willing to bet your sons are glad to be alive and to share this day with you. I figure that’s one of the joys of motherhood. I hope it was fun.
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It was, Katharine. I always enjoy the time I spend with my sons.
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You raise some very disturbing issues, Rosaliene. Two days ago a friend and I were wondering whether we did the right thing bringing kids into a world on the verge of collapse.
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I’ve already told my sons that I don’t wish any grandchildren. Of course, whether or not they have children sometime in the future doesn’t depend upon me. I have two young neighbors (4 and 6 years old) that I adore: I fear for their future.
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Well put, Rosaliene. The world is upside-down.
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It sure is, JoAnn, and getting more so under our current administration.
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I kind of smile, when I was young in the sixties, it was common to read in popular magazines, articles about how by the end of the century, our worries wouldn’t be the hard task, to earn our daily bread, but what to do with our spare time, since by that time we wouldn’t have to worry about it, since nobody would need to work, and everything would be provided for us due to mechanization, robots, and whatever else!
I guess our social advances in politics, have lagged way behind, from our gains in Science.
High time for people around the globe to realize our freedom, and democracy, has been a travesty, and take our power back from those who want to keep the pyramid status quo, with those at the top, being the few.
Or we will remain in the dark ages.
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Burning Heart, I share your view that our social advances have lagged behind our gains in science. Much like a physically mature adult with the mind of a child playing with a live grenade.
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Agree with your comment entirely. Particularly your comment on the obvious fact that our democracies have always been a sham. Who couldn’t tell, when women, 50% of the population were denied the vote plus large ethnic segments were also denied the vote! As democracies world-wide are disintegrating, remaining “democracies” in name only, maybe it’s time the run-of-the-mill numbties realized that promoting and voting for known sociopaths, psychopaths, misogynists, racists, war criminals and would-be war criminals and then arguing about their merits as leaders isn’t the way to go any longer? Perhaps the time has come to “just say no”?
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Happy Mother’s Day ❤️
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Thanks, Laleh. Hope you had a great one ❤
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Thanks Rosaliene, my kids came over and we did BBQ in the backyard. It’s always great to spend time with them isn’t it?😍
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Very well written
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Thanks for dropping by 🙂
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Such powerful, painful reflections, Rosaliene. Your words are so true. It breaks my heart to think of what my lovely daughter and grandchildren are facing now and will face in the future. All I can do is love them, let them know I care in whatever ways I can while I’m here, and keep them in my prayers. Thank you for giving voice so courageously to what it means to be a mother.
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Thanks for your kind words, Carol. Our world has changed and our future looks bleak. Some leaders in our communities blame mothers for the problems we face, forgetting that we do not exist within a vacuum called the family.
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An incredibly sad truth in today’s world. How can one celebrate the joys of motherhood when other mother’s are ripped away from that joy? Beautiful post, Rosaliene!
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Thanks, Geraldine 🙂
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Such are the times we live in. Spot on perspective!
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Thanks for dropping by 🙂
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