Happy Mothers Day
I get a lot of emails, most of which I delete without reading. But I always take time to read The Writer’s Almanac produced and read by Garrison Keillor. It is just the right size for a quick read, usually includes a poem and interesting trivia and biographical details about literary figures. Yesterday featured a beautiful poem entitled “To My Mother” by one of my favorite poets, Wendell Berry. It describes a mother’s love and unqualified forgiveness of her son’s rebellious acts, forgiveness so complete that it seems to be granted even before the misdeed occurs. As always with Berry, he takes the original idea to another level, comparing his mother’s love to “the vision of Heaven of which we have heard, where those who love each other have forgiven each other, where, for that, the leaves are green, the light a music in the air, and all is unentangled, and all is undismayed.”
Check out the full poem here, and enjoy your day, you Mothers!