Honouring Mothers 2009:  A Lily Project

Standing With Women on Mother's Day, May 10

Dream of a world that shares love, honour and respect.

Share your dreams; network with others.

Connect with mothers, grandmothers and mother earth, filling it with positive energy.

Create actions that promote peace, joy, love, laughter, health.

Communicate. Encourage and motivate others to dream, connect and act along with you.

Model the behaviours for others to follow.

I am a multimedia artist for peace who believes in the power of words, sounds and images. I encourage the networking of artists, to bring forward and share their peace perspectives. My dream is that everyone lives a life that they can truly be proud of. Peace is not just an absence of violence or war. Among other things, it also involves a progress towards health, a reduction of poverty and environmental sustainability I encourage the recognition of human rights for all and actively work on many facets of peace.  I will stand alone and I will stand with others.

Along with many other women of the world who dream with me, (see Standing Women.org), I will be standing for the world's children and grandchildren and for the seven generations beyond them.

We dream of a world where all of our children have safe drinking water, clean air to breathe and enough food to eat.
A world where they have access to basic education to develop their minds and healthcare to nurture their growing bodies.
A world where they have a warm, safe and loving place to call home.
A world where they don't live in fear of violence—in their home, in their neighbourhood, in their school or in their world.
This is the world of which we dream. This is the cause for which we stand. 

I will be standing by my garden sign. 

Use creativity as a tool for peace. 

Do not worry.  Let all negativity dissolve. 

I will be focusing on the value that women who shaped me—women who came before me—provided.
I will honour them and all of the positive contributions that they offered to help provide a safe neighbourhood for me and other neighbourhood children to grow up in.   

Too often, people focus on what wasn't done for them.  A large number of people had nothing nice to say about their mothers.  When the term "mother" is not part of the foundation of society, will it be able to survive?  It is a "mother" who takes the time to reflect on the teaching of values.  Are we moving to a valueless society? 

I Will Always be With You  - a poem for mothers.
I use lilies to symbolize my respect for them.  I have put lilies on my online profile and encourage others to do the same.

Use your own, or use any of the Lily Icons  to adorn your images to offer your respect.