Happy ALL MOTHERS DAY, you mothers and others.

This is a good day to recognize the truth of Tibetan Buddhism: that every being was at one time my own mother...your own mother. Hey! that means you were mine and I was yours.

Taking it into present time....you are mine and I am yours. We nurture, cultivate, and tend each other...mother each other...support, sustain one another.

For me, Mother's Day renamed as All Mother's Day becomes inclusive and a time to become interconnected, rather than sealed off in our nuclear units reading stord-bought cards.

We held an All Mother's Day celebration in our family one year and the children loved the idea that they were mother's, too. They made signs, created a show and passed our tickets, picked flowers.

Men and women...women in all relationships to children and others...all of us can be mothers today, on All Mothers Day!

Isabella Mori's blog "change therapy: making lives better, making better lives" is sponsoring a Buddhist carnival. What's that? It's a selection of buddhist posts all over the blogosphere. Isabella kindly included Riehlife's features on Eden Maxwell.

---The Buddha (historically, Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.)