Mother's Day May 14, 2023: MOTHER is the sweetest word in any language,. (2 Parts)

In Celebration of Mother's Day May 14, 2023

MOTHER is the sweetest word in any language.

Dr Abe V Rotor

Part 1 - "My mom is a never ending song in my heart."

Part 2 - "A boy's best friend is his mother." 

Part 1 - "My mom is a never ending song in my heart."

Author's spouse, Cecille, and their daughter, Anna Christina, on the latter's graduation day at Ateneo de Manila University with an MS degree in Information Technology, 2010 

Mother is perhaps the most popular subject in all fields of endeavor and in all walks of life. 

It is one of the most powerful words, specially when used in personification, analogy, simile and  other figures of speech. It is used to describe both animate and inanimate objects, often putting "life" in an inanimate thing. 

Mother pertains to origin and everything has an origin - innate and immanent, and from the time of conception, be it biological, idea or thought. The meaning of mother is readily absorbed in the human mind without undue restraint it is closest to love itself.

Of the definitions of a Mother I have chosen these quotations from famous men and women whose success is undoubtedly traced to the greatest queen and ultimate image of Mother Earth.

But how little do we know the vast goodness, beauty and magnificence of a Mother! Lo, to us who only see them through a keyhole, and not have the key to unlock the door.

The sweetest sounds to mortals given
are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven. ~William Goldsmith Brown (author)

I love my mother as the trees love water and sunshine - she helps me grow, prosper, and reach great heights. ~Adabella Radici (author)

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts. ~Washington Irving (author)

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. ~Abraham Lincoln (US President)

Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together. ~Pearl S. Buck (author)

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes (philosopher, historian and author)

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. ~Honoré de Balzac (philosopher)
 
My mom is a never ending song in my heart of comfort, happiness, and being. I may sometimes forget the words but I always remember the tune. ~ Graycie Harmon

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. ~Sophia Loren, Women and Beauty (actress)

Happy Mother's Day!

Mother's Day for the year 2023 is celebrated/ observed on Sunday, May 14th. Mother's Day is observed the second Sunday in May. It is a time to honor mothers, grandmothers, and great-grandmothers for their contribution to family and society. Since it is not a federal holiday, businesses may be open or closed as any other Sunday.

Part 2 - "A boy's best friend is his mother." 

There has never been, nor will there ever be, anything quite so special as the love between the mother and a son. (Unknown)

Dr Abe V Rotor

Markus 4, and his mom.

Mother - the sweetest sound: 

mommy, mama, mom, nanay, inay; 

there's mother in all languages, 

her breath, whisper the same thing, 

her face, smile, all her images. 

Mother Earth, motherland, 

universal, living and non-living, 

mother's forever, in everything; 

when in comfort, when lost, 

there's always a mother calling. 

Great men, a mother behind,

angel on earth or hereafter, 

mother, first word in the cradle, 

mother, last word on the dying bed, 

first and last rays of the candle. 

A Song for Mama, Ave Maria, 

on her birthday, on Mothers' Day; 

to Ceres, mother of good harvest, 

with Gaia, goddess of the earth, 

Rhea, mother of all goddesses. 

Mother, guardian and teacher, 

to her own, orphans, abandoned, 

faith is but one, so with love, 

old and young, any brethren 

are seen as mothers Above. ~

Markus, on his 3rd birthday, with his mom. During the first 3 years of life, a child’s brain develops at an astonishing rate. By age 3, the brain has reached 80% of its adult size. Developmental experiences determine the organizational and functional status of the mature brain. It is therefore critical during this time to focus on quality care taking and building a strong and healthy attachment, particularly with the mother (or guardian who takes care of the child as a biological mother does. 

A boy's best friend is his mother.

- Joseph Stefano (Screenwriter, Black Orchid, and Hitchcock's Psycho)

Sons are the anchors of a mother's life. - Sophocles (Ancient Greek writer-dramatist, 
Oedipus the King)

A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. Irish Proverb

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged. Louisa May Alcott (author of The Little Women)

There is an endearing tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that transcends all other affections of the heart. - Washington Irving (author, Rip Van Winkle, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow)

Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always. - A.E. Coppard (author, The Collected Tales)

A good son will never allow sorrow to befall her mother...and act as if he is an only child that cares...protects when no one dares...serves with his life in return...and most of all finds a wife that will love his mother too. - Helen Rebibis Ramos (Philippine author, Bluemoon of Memories)

If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it. - Sigmund Freud (Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis)

To a mother, a son is never a fully grown man; and a son is never a fully grown man until he understands and accepts this about his mother. Unknown ~