Remembering the Gipper...

“Maternal love is the first tangible bond any human being knows. It is a tie at once physical, emotional, psychological, and mystical. With all of the words that have been written about motherhood, all of the poems of tribute and gratitude that have been penned through the ages, all of the portraits of a mother and child that have been painted down the centuries, none has come close to expressing in full the thankfulness and joy owing to mothers. The mark of motherhood, as the story of Solomon and the disputed infant in the first Book of Kings shows, is a devotion to the well being of the child so total that it overlooks itself and its own preferences and needs. It is a love that risks all, bears all, braves all... As inadequate as our homage may be and as short as a single day is to express it—’What possible comparison was there,’ a great saint wrote of his mother, ‘between the honor I showed her and the service she had rendered me?’ —Mother’s Day affords us an opportunity to meet one of life’s happiest duties.”

Ronald Reagan