Do you remember the origin of Mother's Day? Our friend, REDACTED, was pastor in Grafton, West Virginia. A Methodist woman started it there in her church in the early 1900s. Evidently she was a real bitch and not nice at all to her mother. She felt guilty after her mother died, so she started mother's day. Evidently there is a shrine to mothers in Grafton. Love from your sainted Mother.
Bless her, I think she is letting me off the hook for not sending a card. I do plan to give her a ring later...
Did you people know that Mother's Day was started by a real bitch who was not nice to her mother?
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Furthermore, a syndicated story in today's Petfinder says she copyrighted the phrases 'Mother's Day' and 'The Second Sunday in May', and (...irony, if you want it...) spent the rest of her life and all of her inheritance suing the asses offa everybody she felt had commercialized/generally dissed 'her' day.
And ended up dying penniless in an insane asylum.
There's a twisted moral in there someplace, but us coyotes don't do Aesop's Fables...
Yes, I did hear she was a real bitch and invented Mother's Day to celebrate the day her mother died and ended up being officially diagnosed as insane eventually. But, I didn't know she wasn't nice to her mother.
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