…from our family to yours.
As we all creep back towards normalcy, give your mom an extra hug today. We will.
As I go through ancestry with my mother, it amazes me the stories and characters behind them that built our family tree in the US and Canada. I have been especially keying in on the Great Expulsion of Scotland (Highlands) in the mid-1770’s. These families were practically exterminated after being chased off their land and forced off into the new unknown world of Halifax, Boston and Virginia.
My family stories of this era always seem to always involve a strong woman whose primary function was the operations of the overall family unit. With their goal of settlement on a remote land far away from the forces of the crown, these family units (average age 23 for adults) with 5, 8, 10+ children sometimes to raise found themselves on desolate islands such as Prince Edward Island (“PEI”), Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. Weather conditions were not optimal with the average temperatures on PEI being 13 degrees with a wind off the water.
While the father was on a boat chasing tuna and lobster or in the fields, the mothers brought up the next generation virtually on their own. They had no fear.
Pro Libertate!
Prayers for our friends around the world, but especially in India where this awful virus has recently surged.
“It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?” —Mahatma Gandhi
“God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.” —Rudyard Kipling
and can’t leave Boston out for my mother…
“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children” –Nathaniel Hawthorne
Happy Mothers’ Day from our family to yours!
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