To mothers near and far, happy Mother's Day

Migrant Mother, 1936, by Dorothea Lange

"So when the great word 'Mother!' rang once more,
I saw at last its meaning and its place;
Not the blind passion of the brooding past,
But Mother -- the World's Mother -- come at last,
To love as she had never loved before --
To feed and guard and teach the human race."
-- Charlotte Perkins Gilman