momma mia man date
comb the second Sunday during month of May
can be traced back to ancient Greeks and Romans
festivals held to honor mother goddesses Rhea and Cybele
setting precedent for Mother's Day
where early Christians fancied festival known as “Mothering Sunday.”
Fast forward to the early twentieth century 1908 when Ann Maria Reeves Jarvis (a social activist then,
and community organizer during American Civil War) era to quieten
grief fraught era also cited as informally memorializing her mother, who begot said noble men
touring daughter paying homage to woebegone lachrymose role with accolades to endure tragedy and loss put upon child bearing women, this event held (rain or sun)
at St Andrew's Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virginia, which did quicken
in subsequent decades to formal fete, where poets (like me) did open the special occasion with ranked midshipmen commercialization cropped as ken
be expected by the early 1920's imbolden greeting card companies such as Hallmark gen
er rated a market (money making of course) even
though Jarvis believed companies sought profit
NOT prophet, thus misinterpreting and exploiting idea of Mother's Day and met
aforementioned founder, who tried to jet
tis sin the vulgar appetite of the ole mighty dollar, but her lofty ambition did get thwarted by mass marketing the quaint idea, plus she feared going in debt and though the industry (initially proposed entailed low key acknowledgement, the originator (Ann Marie Jarvis) still esteemed re
formed unsanitary living conditions with zee
less ness and aplomb
set a course where greater longevity doth hum
all because, she sought to regale "mum."
can be traced back to ancient Greeks and Romans
festivals held to honor mother goddesses Rhea and Cybele
setting precedent for Mother's Day
where early Christians fancied festival known as “Mothering Sunday.”
Fast forward to the early twentieth century 1908 when Ann Maria Reeves Jarvis (a social activist then,
and community organizer during American Civil War) era to quieten
grief fraught era also cited as informally memorializing her mother, who begot said noble men
touring daughter paying homage to woebegone lachrymose role with accolades to endure tragedy and loss put upon child bearing women, this event held (rain or sun)
at St Andrew's Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virginia, which did quicken
in subsequent decades to formal fete, where poets (like me) did open the special occasion with ranked midshipmen commercialization cropped as ken
be expected by the early 1920's imbolden greeting card companies such as Hallmark gen
er rated a market (money making of course) even
though Jarvis believed companies sought profit
NOT prophet, thus misinterpreting and exploiting idea of Mother's Day and met
aforementioned founder, who tried to jet
tis sin the vulgar appetite of the ole mighty dollar, but her lofty ambition did get thwarted by mass marketing the quaint idea, plus she feared going in debt and though the industry (initially proposed entailed low key acknowledgement, the originator (Ann Marie Jarvis) still esteemed re
formed unsanitary living conditions with zee
less ness and aplomb
set a course where greater longevity doth hum
all because, she sought to regale "mum."
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