THE FOUR SEASONS OF MOTHERHOOD

© Helen Webber 2010

Here’s a sample from an e-booklet just introduced

showing the stages of motherhood relating to

a baby, a child, a teen, and adult.

The four sesons of Motherhood is a celebration of the

invincible ties between mother and child

at any age, and any stage
It’s an 8 page on line booklet that you can e-mail to all the mothers

you know, and even the mothers of mothers. No sealing envelopes,

licking stamps, or rushes to the post office.

You can send it to anyone who cares about the bonding of mother

and child as well as the bonding of poetry and art.

Celebrating EARTHDAY with a tapestry

The Tapestry Around us

Be it a golden moon
shining on a velvet river

Or a forest of animals
sheltered by brocaded trees

Or birds streaming through
a silken sky

Be it mountains of woven wool
and hillsides covered with
tall grasses of tweed

It is all a tapestry,
a reminder
of the song the Earth
is singing to us

© Helen Webber
Poppies, fabric collage tapestry
from the Earthsong Collection
also available as fine art print

Be sure to check out my Earthday Flickr gallery.

SWEET & SOUR WORD SOUP

So what’s in a word? Well. lots. The word social and all its manifestations including words and phrases such as socialism, socialize, social network, socializing content, going social…make a tasty sweet and sour soup.

The stigmatized political “socialized “ word, shouted about to repress socially progressive programs, and to defeat those who advocate for such programs, well that’s the sour part. That fear word started in the 30’s and still is being used to frighten the public into a knee jerk reaction against positive social change.

The sweet part of the word soup is coming from those who were children when the cold war ended. Somehow they aren’t frightened by the word “socialized”. These social dare- devils have used these words to beckon us into a sweetened life using social networks to enhance everything including our businesses, and every aspect of our social lives.

Such is the sweet and sour word soup of today… a mixture of words that sound alike but with very different flavors.

Bloggers Lament

Some of you who swim in the sea of social networking
may occasionally sink into a swamp of despond.

Here’s my homage to your despair.

Even if you are an Olympic swimmer
you may recognize, out of the corner of your eye,
a rogue wave of frustration that occasionally comes
your way.

This is for you, too.
(click on image to enlarge)