The Queen’s Chronicles: TO ALL WHO HAVE BEEN BORN OF MOTHERS

Mother's Day was originally started after the Civil War,

as a protest to the carnage of that war, by women who

had lost their sons.

The following is the original Mother's Day Proclamation

written by Julia Ward Howe in Boston, 1870:

"Arise, then, women of this day! Arise all women who have heart,

whether our baptism be that of water or tears!

Say firmly: 

“’We will not have our great questions decided by irrelevant

agencies. Our husbands shall not come to us, reeking with

carnage, for caresses and applause. Our sons shall not be taken

from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of

charity, mercy and patience. We women of one country will be

too tender of those of another country to allow our sons to be

trained to injure theirs.'

In the name of womanhood and of humanity, I earnestly ask

that a general congress of women without limits of nationality

may be appointed and held at some place deemed most

convenient and at the earliest period consider with its objects

to promote the alliance of the different nationalities, the

amicable settlement of international questions, the great and

general interests of peace."

Let us take her eloquent plea for peace to heart. In the name

of all the mothers all through time beginning with the creatrix

Mother Goddesses and in the interest of our precious Mother Earth,

let us lend our voice, our time, our money, our energy and our

passion to the cause of peace on the planet. 

xxYour Mama Donna