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Louis Proyect wrote: > I know that mother's day was invented in order to sell greeting's cards > and flowers but it will always have a different meaning for me since my > own mom died a day after Mother's Day 2 years ago. (The holiday is the > second Sunday in May.) I just returned from upstate where I placed a > pebble on her gravestone, a Jewish tradition. For my own reflections on > the death of a mother, see: > > http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/reflections-on-my-mothers-death/ Hah! A minute after posting this, I solved today's NYT double-acrostic that had a mother's day theme: Leo Rosten, The Joy of Yiddish "A neighbor was so fierce in her maternal affections that when her no-goodnik son was arrested for some infraction she returned from visiting him to announce you never saw such a beautiful jail my Morris is in." ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
