May 12, 1996
Only One Mother
Today's Reading: "Only One Mother" by George Cooper.
Today is Mother's Day, first observed in 1907 when Anna M. Jarvis of Philadelphia invited friends to her home on the anniversary of her mother's death. By 1911 every state was celebrating Mother's Day on the second Sunday in May.
Poet Edward Lear was born in London on this day in 1812.
It's the birthday of Florence Nightingale, born in Florence, Italy in 1820.
Poet, painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti, brother of Christina Rossetti, was born in London on this day in 1828.
It's the birthday of British biochemist Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin (1964 Nobel Prize for Chemistry), born in Cairo, Egypt in 1910.
Writer, naturalist Farley Mowat (A Whale For the Killing) was born today in Belleville, Ontario in 1921.
Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.®