Thursday, May 5, 2016

Mother's May Table


A May table that is simple and sweet.  A table to enjoy one another's company.

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Vintage plates routinely used.  Special memories tucked in with the roses' beauty.





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“I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.” —Mitch Albom




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“Mother’s love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. If it is there, it is like a blessing; if it is not there it is as if all the beauty had gone out of life.” —Erick Fromm




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Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother. - Lin Yutang, Chinese writer




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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




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"Oh, mother, mother, mother," the boy groaned, and he longed, as if his heart was breaking, to lay his head on her knee, and look up for comfort to her face, as he had often done in his childish troubles. "Dear, dear mother!" and the tears came at last, raining through his fingers, and taking away that dull stupor of pain from his heart. ~Cousin Alice, "All's Not Gold that Glitters;" or, The Young Californian, 1858  [Emily Alice Bradley Neal Haven (1827–1863) —tεᖇᖇ¡·g]




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A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know he sees it. - William Dean Howells




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The mother memories that are closest to my heart are the small gentle ones that I have carried over from the days of my childhood. They are not profound, but they have stayed with me through life, and when I am very old, they will still be near. - Margaret Sanger




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The death of a mother is the first sorrow wept without her. - Author unknown




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“one of the best and the most painful things about time traveling has been the opportunity to see my mother alive.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife




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Jan







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