Emma Thompson plays a scientist in "Junior" who is very annoyed that the team has managed to impregnate Arnold. "This birthing is something that is women's and nobody should be messing with it or including men in it", she says.
On Mother's Day, we take a moment to recognize that our mothers participated in our conception, carried us, bore us, raised us and we thank them. By the time, I am old enough to appreciate more fully what my mom did, many of the answers to my questions are lost or forgotten. Was it a happy thing to find out I was growing inside? Did I kick and toss often while you carried me? Did you feel supported and loved during the pregnancy and parenting? Was Dad appropriately attentive, not too much and not too little?
We have been watching the riveting and moving "Call the Midwife" on PBS and streaming sources. There probably couldn't be a show that any more clearly reminds us of what human motherhood is all about.
Thanks, Mothers! We thank you from the bottom of our lives, from the beginning of our lives. We thank you for our lives. And, we thank our mothers' mothers and all the dads, too.
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Bill
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