RE: Happy Mothers Day To all Mothers

2020-MAY-08-1127Hrs

To all Mothers, past, present and future. What a blessed group of strong, gifted women.

Recently, I have been chatting with some of our contemporaries, Baby Boomers, and concluded that mothers from that era were some of our best teachers even though they had graduated from the” school of hard knocks”.

Many of them didn’t attend high school or finished primary school. “Common sense come before book sense”; they would remind us. They could stretch a dollar, balance ah meager budget, trust from de chinee man shop, plant ah garden, raise some livestock, buy cloth from de Syrian man, run ah susu, borrow from de neighbor, sell in de market, wash an iron people clothes, open ah lil parlor, do some servant wuk, board some workmen, sew some clothes and curtain. Our mothers did anything to put food on the table and keep the family intact. Many of them prayed every day and attended several churches: Catholic, Anglican, Baptist, Pentecostal, Jehovah Witness, Church of God, Pilgrim Holiness, Seventh Day Adventist and Shouter Baptist.

In the fifties, when the PNM appeared on the political scene promising free secondary education for everybody, our mothers joined the party group and canvassed day and night. They dressed up in red and white and was convention, motorcade and political meetings and rallies everywhere. Under the charismatic leadership of Dr. Eric Williams, a new day dawned. The contributions of our beloved mothers ensured the PNM’s victories in 1956.

Therefore, this Mothers’ Day let us all sing the Hallelujah Chorus for our Mothers.

Thank you, Mammy, Frances George.

Aye, Marjorie jus remind meh dat Mothers’ Day is next week. Errol, doh dig nutten. Ah jus had tuh write dis piece tonite. In my book, every day is Mothers’ Day.

As usual,

Rodney Foster 66-68