A Pillow For Mother’s Day
It’s the day you forget how badly you treat your mother on every other day of the year. And how badly your mother treats you.
Either way it’s a day when you might make a Kansas City phone call to an Irish mother.
Maybe your mother really does embody sweetness, purity and endurance, and so deserves a single carnation that its American creator advocated, but can you really argue that Tony Soprano was wrong when he attempted to give his mother a pillow?
As well as being celebrated on different days in America (today) and in Ireland (the 4th Sunday in Lent), the day has very different origins in each country. In Ireland (as in Britain) it was tied to the church, and in a time when you didn’t have many family celebrations it made sense. Nowadays though it makes little sense but much money - just like the American version contrary to what Anna Jarvis thought she was campaigning for when she lobbied for its creation.
Mothers and More:
• Don’t Show Your Painting to Your Irish Mother
• How Do You Say Grandmother in Irish (Gaelic / Gaeilge)?
• I’m Reminded of the British Police by Valentine’s Day in the USA
• My Mother Invented the Chicken Sandwich
• A Mother Teaches
• Irish Women Really Don’t Talk Like This. Ever
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