In this feature, I'll share a weekly guest with you all, and you tell me in only three words what come to mind. The last couple weeks, the choices have stumped many of you...so will this one. Maybe.
In Three Words...
Anna Jarvis
LIVE! LIVE! Life is a banquet, and some sorry sons of bitches are starving!
Created Mothers Day [I had to google too]
ReplyDeleteOld White Lady
ReplyDeleteDidn't feel like googling and that was my first thought.
You follow instruction! I say what comes to mind! Good girl! It's always interesting to see what words y'all will say.
Deletewished she hadn't
ReplyDeleteLife's sad ending.
ReplyDeleteFellow Philadelphia resident.
ReplyDeleteConceived Mother’s Day.
ReplyDeleteThen Hated it.
Inspirational social activists.
ReplyDeleteWhat I found interesting was, she eventually denounced the holiday she had worked so hard to create and spent the latter part of her life trying to remove it from the calendar. Could you blame her?
Pioneered Hallmark's Profits. Jx
ReplyDeletePS In the UK, Miss Constance Adelaide Penswick Smith was so outraged by Miss Jarvis's promotion of an American "Mothers' Day" that she pioneered the revival of an ancient medieval tradition of "Mothering Sunday" in March, rather than May (which is still the date we use today) . It, too, has met the same cynical and commercialised shit state as that in the States. No wonder Miss Jarvis tried to disown her creation. I'm not sure Miss Smith survived long enough to become equally as disillusioned by what a marketing nightmare hers, too, became.
Yes...she hated the commercialization of it, and it defeated the purpose she wanted it too. The sad part is she died almost broke and in an asylum. The greeting card and floral industry paid her bills and her funeral. I'm sure she was looking down, NOT resting in peace.
DeleteDon't forget Mom
ReplyDelete(I, too, googled)
Had To Google
ReplyDeleteCan I have four words? Mother Of All Mothers.
ReplyDeleteCan you imagine if she could see it today?
She'd pass out, Im sure.
DeleteLooks like mom, my mom.
ReplyDeleteI didn't Google.
ReplyDeleteShe looks
Strong, Determined, Empowered
Three good ones, Id say.
DeleteReinvention queen incarnate
ReplyDeleteMother's Day/Mothering Sunday was "invented" centuries ago, when maidservants were allowed one day off a year to go home to see their mother. Their master/mistress would give them the ingredients to make a simnel cake which they took with them as a gift.
Always something to learn in the comment section, I swear. What a fun tidbit of info Helen
DeleteGoogle's my friend.
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