Salute to the mother.......

My mom only had one eye. I hated her… She was such an embarrassment. She cooked for students and teachers to support the family.

There was this one day during elementary school where my mom came to say hello to me. I was so embarrassed.

How could she do this to me? I ignored her, threw her a hateful look and ran out. The next day at school one of my classmates said, ‘EEEE, your mom only has one 

eye!’

I wanted to bury myself. I also wanted my mom to just disappear. I confronted her that day and said, ‘ If you’re only gonna make me a laughing stock, why don’t you just die?’

My mom did not respond… I didn’t even stop to think for a second about what I had said, because I was full of anger. I was oblivious to her feelings.

I wanted out of that house, and have nothing to do with her. So I studied real hard, got a chance to go abroad to study.

Then, I got married. I bought a house of my own. I had kids of my own. I was happy with my life, my kids and the comforts. Then one day, my Mother came to visit me. She hadn’t seen me in years and she didn’t even meet her grandchildren.

When she stood by the door, my children laughed at her, and I yelled at her for coming over uninvited. I screamed at her, ‘How dare you come to my house and scare my children!’ GET OUT OF HERE! NOW!!!’

And to this, my mother quietly answered, ‘Oh, I’m so sorry. I may have gotten the wrong address,’ and she disappeared out of sight.

One day, a letter regarding a school reunion came to my house. So I lied to my wife that I was going on a business trip. After the reunion, I went to the old shack just out of curiosity.

My neighbors said that she died. I did not shed a single tear. They handed me a letter that she had wanted me to have.

‘My dearest son,

I think of you all the time. I’m sorry that I came to your house and scared your children.

I was so glad when I heard you were coming for the reunion. But I may not be able to even get out of bed to see you. I’m sorry that I was a constant embarrassment to you when you were growing up.

You see……..when you were very little, you got into an accident, and lost your eye. As a mother, I couldn’t stand watching you having to grow up with one eye. So I gave you mine.

I was so proud of my son who was seeing a whole new world for me, in my place, with that eye.

With all my love to you,

Your mother.’


Source : Internet.

Power Of Now

Respect Woman...

A man was sick and tired of going to work everyday whilehis wife
stayed at home, he wanted his wife to see what he goes through and so he prayed;
"Dear Lord, I go to work all day and put in eight hours while my wife
stays at home. I want her to know what I go through, so please switch her body to mine for a day, as I take hers.
Amen!
So God in his own infinite wisdom
granted the man's wish.

The n

ext morning, sure enough, the man awoke as a woman.
He cooked breakfast, awakened the kids, set out their school clothes, feed them, pack their lunch, drovethem to school, came back home, picked up the dry cleaning, took it to the cleaner, went to grocery shopping, drove home and put away the groceries, cleaned the cat's little box and bathed the dog.
Then it was already 1:00pm.
He quickly went to make the bed, do
the laundry, swept and mop the floor. Ran to school to pick up the
kids. Got into an argument with
one of them. Set out milk and cookies and got the kids organized to do their home work.
Then set the ironing board and watched tv, while he did the ironing.
At 4.30pm, he began peeling potatoes and washed the vegetables for salad, breaded the
pork chop and snapped freshbeans for supper.
After supper, he cleaned the kitchen, ran the dishwasher, folded laundry, bathed the kids, put them to bed.
He's exhausted, and though his daily choice wasn't over, he went
to bed and was expected to make love which he managed to get through without complaints.
Early morning, he woke up and quickly knelt down by thebed and
said;"LORD, I don't know what I was thinking, I was wrong to envy my wife being able to stay hOme all day. Please let's trade
again.
Amen!
God answered; man I'd like toanswer your prayers, the time you made love, you got pregnant, so you have to wAit for nine months to change.

MORAL LESSON:
Respect the woman, they are the pillar of the house.
The woman are indeed endowed.
I LOVE U ALL.......

A WINDOW TO LOOK THROUGH by Brian G. Jett ©-1999

She watches through her window, her little girl at play. Memories flood back to her childhood, of her yesterdays

As she tucks her gift into bed, and kisses her precious face
She says a prayer of protection, "Lord keep my child safe."

And as days turn months into years, she sees her little girl grow
She begins to realize that a time will come, the time when she must let go

Suddenly she hears a gentle voice-- saying, "No greater love is this,
Than what you've done for your little girl, go seal it with a kiss."

"Honey I want to kiss your face, but I know I can't by phone
While looking through your bedroom window, I began to feel alone."

"So many days through this very window, I'd watch you laugh and play
And I can almost see you tucked in bed, on those nights we'd talk and pray."

"Mom," her daughter uttered, "There's something I want to say...
You may not know how many times, I saw you watch me play."

"That window that you're looking through, is the same one God looked in
He saw you by my bed each night, when you'd tenderly tuck me in."

"So mom please don't feel all alone, you know I'll always be there...
Just like God is with you now, no matter the time, or place or where."

Her mother paused and then replied, "Sweetheart I know you're right...
You're grown, married and have a child, that you now tuck in at night."

"Mom, I better go now, I have some things I better do."
Her mom replied, "I know it dear, you've got a window to look through."


ABOUT THE AUTHOR
As an author Brian Jett has written a host of songs and composed many lite jazz guitar compositions. Brian is currently writing and arranging gospel, country, RnB, and other instrumental jazz tunes including old hymns brought to a smooth jazz life with his soulful style that continues to grow as he does.

Brian G. Jett’s is also well known among authors associated with his ability to form inspirational, thought-provoking quotations which now number over 700 - published world wide in a multitude of books, assays, scholastic missives, and Internet sources. His writings can be found in “Chicken Soup for the Soul” best selling series of books, “The Washington Post”, “Wisdom Magazine”, “Venice Gulf Coast Magazine”, “Nothing To Fear” by the late Larry Burkett, KentuckyPetz Magazine, and a host of other publications.

His desire is to continue to inspire by word and by soulful guitar artistry developed mostly by ear and from “...playing what I hear…”

Quote for the day

Promise me this, that you will not allow life to harden your heart because it will if you allow it. Always stay open to the possibilities of a new Love, it could be right in front of your face, and always have faith that God wants you to be happy and he has wonderful things planned for you. - Karen Kostyla

Thought for the day...

A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform. ~Diane Mariechild

Quotes on Woman

Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags.

CHARLOTTE BRONTE, Jane Eyre

Must only women inspire????

Since the time of the ancient Greeks,muses have always been women who have inspired artists with their divine knowledge.The contemporary Indian creative lot however,has its own idea of who makes a muse.For some,its an esoteric concept,for others,a cat would do just as well,says Dhamini Ratnam.

WHEN 19th century author Mary Ann Evans,who wrote under the male pseudonym George Eliot,said in a letter to a friend,( my) pen is not of the true literary order which will run along without the help of brains, she was doing more than making a tongue-in-cheek comment about her style of writing.Eliot,in her inimitable style composed equally of wit and biting sarcasm,was referring to the role played by the muse,a mythical figure credited for being not only an authors inspiration,but very often,the genius behind his work.
Not surprisingly,Eliot would have none of that.Her writing derived from her formidable brain,and no wishy-washy muse depicted traditionally as a beautiful woman,nay,a Greek goddess would distract readers from Eliots chunky,realistic prose.An industrial revolution,two World Wars and some post-colonial liberalisation later,the contemporary Indian artist has mixed feelings about the muse.For some,like painter Akbar Padamsee,the muse is too ephemeral an idea,and he would rather engage with the physical reality that he paints of and photographs.For others like poet Arundhathi Subramaniam,the muse is everchanging and ever present.( None of my poems) would have been written without a muse, says the author of Where I Live,over an e-mail,adding that her muses have ranged from friend to city to even,her cat.
For the Greeks,however,there were nine muses (some accounts say three),who were the daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne,the Titan who personified memory.Hesiod,an eighth century BC Greek epic poet gave them names,but it was only later,in Roman times,that each was made into a goddess of a particular kind of creative work music (Euterpe ),epic poetry (Calliope),tragedy (Melpomene),comedy (Thalia),dance (Terpischore).The muses not only inspired the likes of 
Homer and Hesiod,they also 
breathed divine knowledge and love for the arts into them.These poets then,saw themselves as receptacles of a knowledge already possessed by the goddesses.Eliot isnt the only who has a problem with that idea.The Last Song of Dusk author Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi admits that while his mother was his muse for his debut novel,the idea of a muse makes him uncomfortable.I must work regardless of inspiration,because people who do more valuable work than me doctors or mothers even dont rely on a muse.They just have to get on with it, he says.In a similar vein,84-year-old Padamsee would rather deal with light and shadow than esoteric notions.Part of the original crop of Modern Indian artists,Padamsee,who also shoots photographs in black and white,says,Temperamentally,I am not suited to put anyone on a pedestal. I am inspired, he adds,by the way the light falls on the body. Goa-based photographer Prabuddha Dasgupta doesnt dismiss the muse.Light and shadow are necessary,but whats essential to his creative output,he says,is the feminine energy. Men have always depended on women for the push in our raw centres.This feminine energy is responsible for my creativity,but the muse doesnt have to be a specific person, he feels.Dasgupta wonders if it would be the same for women artists.Delhi-based fashion designer siblings Gauri and Nainika Karan are clear about their muse late Hollywood actress Audrey Hepburn for her timeless elegance,classic style and chicness. Subramaniam,known for the compelling imagery of her poems,however believes in the idea of a muse as a metaphor.The muses are a reminder of that seeming capriciousness of inspiration.The goddesses are wild,free-spirited,elusive;their ways,inscrutable.You can scratch the pen endlessly across the page,but without a touch of their rasa,you are an empty ritualist,a mechanic,and little else. The impetus for a poem could be anything a place,a person,a relationship,a mood.But to transform that into verbal magma,you need Devi.I have no problem with that.I only wish shed visit me more often, she says.dhamini.ratnam@timesgroup.com 

Creative giants inspired by ladies 
I Late singer John Lennon: 

Japanese-American artist,and wife Yoko Ono 

I German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld: 

French singer-actress Vanessa Paradis 

I Bengali Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore: 

Sister-in-law Kadambari Devi 

I Late artist MF Husain: 

Actress Madhuri Dixit

BY TIMES NEWS NETWORK 

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Mothers love - Quotes on mother

Quotes
A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. ~Tenneva Jordan


Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field, since the payment is pure love. ~Mildred B. Vermont


A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. ~Peter De Vries


The phrase "working mother" is redundant. ~Jane Sellman


The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. ~Rajneesh


If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother in the other, the whole world would kick the beam. ~Lord Langdale (Henry Bickersteth)


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


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


If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother. ~Author Unknown


Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly. ~Ambrose Bierce


Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's the men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one's likely to do anything about that. ~Golda Meir


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


The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. ~Honoré de Balzac


All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. ~Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895


He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men's mothers. ~Harry Emerson Fosdick


Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee
Calls back the lovely April of her prime.
~William Shakespeare


An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. ~Spanish Proverb


She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along. ~Margaret Culkin Banning


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


If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? ~Milton Berle


Motherhood is priced
Of God, at price no man may dare
To lessen or misunderstand.
~Helen Hunt Jackson


Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. ~Aristotle


Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort. ~John Lancaster Spalding


Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. ~Meryl Streep


The sweetest sounds to mortals given
Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven.
~William Goldsmith Brown


What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever? ~Thomas Wentworth Higginson


The formative period for building character for eternity is in the nursery. The mother is queen of that realm and sways a scepter more potent than that of kings or priests. ~Author Unknown


Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. ~Marion C. Garretty, quoted in A Little Spoonful of Chicken Soup for the Mother's Soul


I love my mother as the trees love water and sunshine - she helps me grow, prosper, and reach great heights. ~Terri Guillemets


[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled. ~Emily Dickinson


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


Any mother could perform the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease. ~Lisa Alther


Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother. ~Beverly Jones

That best academy, a mother's knee. ~James Russell Lowell


A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. ~Victor Hugo


Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that suppose to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing. ~Toni Morrison, Beloved, 1987


The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother's Day are the good ones. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child - and an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own. ~Robert Brault,www.robertbrault.com


Mommies are just big little girls. ~Author Unknown


A mom's hug lasts long after she lets go. ~Author Unknown


Hundreds of dewdrops to greet the dawn,
Hundreds of bees in the purple clover,
Hundreds of butterflies on the lawn,
But only one mother the wide world over.
~George Cooper


A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories. ~Honoré de Balzac


A mother's heart is a patchwork of love. ~Author Unknown


A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all. ~Washington Irving


A mom forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don't even have. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


My mother is a poem
I'll never be able to write,
though everything I write
is a poem to my mother.
~Sharon Doubiago


You can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can't fool mom. ~Author Unknown


With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood. ~Isadora Duncan


One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters. ~George Herbert


There's nothing like a mama-hug. ~Terri Guillemets


Who fed me from her gentle breast
And hushed me in her arms to rest,
And on my cheek sweet kisses prest?
My Mother.
~Anne Taylor


Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. ~Erich Fromm


Mother is a verb, not a noun. ~Proverb


Who ran to help me when I fell,
And would some pretty story tell,
Or kiss the place to make it well?
My mother.
~Ann Taylor


Mother - that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries. ~T. DeWitt Talmage


Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn't know you had, and dealing with fears you didn't know existed. ~Linda Wooten


The precursor of the mirror is the mother's face. ~D.W. Winnicott, Playing and Reality, 1971


The mother of boys work son-up to son-down. ~Author Unknown


Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. ~William Makepeace Thackeray


A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of her self. And mothers are their daughters' role model, their biological and emotional road map, the arbiter of all their relationships. ~Victoria Secunda


Mother's love grows by giving. ~Charles Lamb


I miss thee, my Mother! Thy image is still
The deepest impressed on my heart.
~Eliza Cook


The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated. ~Washington Irving


A mom reads you like a book, and wherever she goes, people read you like a glowing book review. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


I cannot forget my mother. [S]he is my bridge. When I needed to get across, she steadied herself long enough for me to run across safely. ~Renita Weems


A little girl, asked where her home was, replied, "where mother is." ~Keith L. Brooks


Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes


Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers and sisters, aunts and cousins, comrades and friends - but only one mother in the whole world. ~Kate Douglas Wiggin


If I was damned of body and soul,
I know whose prayers would make me whole,
Mother o' mine, O mother o'mine.
~Rudyard Kipling


Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not. ~James Joyce


My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart - a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation. ~Mark Twain


It's not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it. ~From the television show The Golden Girls


The mother's heart is the child's school-room. ~Henry Ward Beecher


Women know
The way to rear up children (to be just)
They know a simple, merry, tender knack
Of tying sashes, fitting baby shoes,
And stringing pretty words that make no sense,
And kissing full sense into empty words.
~Elizabeth Barrett Browning


Mother, the ribbons of your love are woven around my heart. ~Author Unknown


How beautifully everything is arranged by Nature; as soon as a child enters the world, it finds a mother ready to take care of it. ~Jules Michelet


The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and your own abysmal loneliness and helplessness without her. ~Francis Thompson


My mom is literally a part of me. You can't say that about many people except relatives, and organ donors. ~Carrie Latet


Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. ~Moorish Proverb


All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother. ~Abraham Lincoln


No painter's brush, nor poet's pen
In justice to her fame
Has ever reached half high enough
To write a mother's name.
~Author Unknown


Women who miscalculate are called mothers. ~Abigail Van Buren


A man's work is from sun to sun, but a mother's work is never done. ~Author Unknown


Mirror, mirror on the wall,
I am my mother after all.
~Author Unknown


One of the very few reasons I had any respect for my mother when I was thirteen was because she would reach into the sink with her bare hands - bare hands - and pick up that lethal gunk and drop it into the garbage. To top that, I saw her reach into the wet garbage bag and fish around in there looking for a lost teaspoon. Bare hands - a kind of mad courage. ~Robert Fulghum


One lamp - thy mother's love - amid the stars
Shall lift its pure flame changeless, and before
The throne of God, burn through eternity -
Holy - as it was lit and lent thee here.
~Nathaniel Parker Willis


No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right. She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones. ~Harry Truman


God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers. ~Jewish Proverb


Perhaps we are given a mom that we might take into death the memory of a lullaby. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Life is the fruit she longs to hand you,
Ripe on a plate.
And while you live,
Relentlessly she understands you.
~Phyllis McGinley


All mothers are working mothers. ~Author Unknown


Because I feel that in the heavens above
The angels, whispering one to another,
Can find among their burning tears of love,
None so devotional as that of "Mother,"
Therefore, by that dear name I have long called you,
You who are more than mother unto me.
~Edgar Allan Poe


The best conversations with mothers always take place in silence, when only the heart speaks. ~Terri Guillemets


Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother. ~Oprah Winfrey


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

Woman