Mother Earth, ... Lay Your Body Down.

It is the month of May. Bryn Myr May Day, not a Welsh holiday? It is the Remembrance of the May Fourth Tragedy at Kent, Ohio although it is global, if not the details, a general sense. The world is blessed with Cinc de May a wonderful holiday where I liked to make sure I listened to the Barcelona Gipsy Orchestra recalling "sephardemia" abouts, klezmer, saying "manana" appropriately. And Mothers Day. A Sunday in May is reserved to remember the concept of "mother." Mix Mothers Day with Earth Day and you get ... Mother Earth Day. A well-grounded, humbling experience ... in deed it is.

A friend of a friend passed away this month on his birthday doing healthy things, socializing, ... . My friend said that is the way I want to go. I said I want to die on the Day of Atonement (on the year I am to go) when I have a better chance to have the slate clean. I could wait to the Festival of Booths, ... if the Book of Life is still open. If the Book is still open, ... . If a book is still open? Yes. Have a wonderful Mothers Day, organic family, family of choice, nuclear family, unclear family, spirituality-wise, hippie-wise, Mother Earth, necessity, (the mother of invention), Mother Ocean, the Abraham's three religions, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, mothers, other mothers, blessed mothers (mothers-in-law?). It is rather conceptual. This freedom.

It is said everyone is to plant a tree, have a child, and write a book in one's lifetime. This Sunday .... remember your mother? Put down the manuscript you are working on, and ... remember your mother, ... and put down an idea about your ... mother ... in the book. Is the book still open?

Have a really good day,

Todd.

P.S. One more parenthetical statement today, maybe amusing, entertaining, of interest. Thank you and in gratitude for a reader. (Like "Ohio" is the state that is almost a palindrome, my mother's name is almost like the good philosopher dec. Louis Althusser, former democratic socialist leader of France. L.A.)