Mother's Pay

We had the most marvelous Mother's Day. Our daughters joined forces and created a magnificent eggs Benedict brunch, complete with spinach, local salmon, fresh brewed organic decaf lattes, and chocolate croissants. They showered us with lily , fuchsia, and lavender plants and of course sweet cards with personal sentiments that always makes a mother cry.
The pride and love I feel in my daughters' presence is unparalleled. The fact that they came from my body makes it ever more poignant and miraculous. I with a little help from their father created these brilliant beautiful creatures and they are a true representation of my purpose here on earth. Though I try to teach them all I know about the world and it's severity and wonders, they are in fact, my teachers.
With casual ease they dismantle my ego and highlight the lessons in life that I still have to master/ or should I say mother. Patience and trust being uppermost on that list.

My mother, may she rest in peace, told me that once you give birth to children, they are on their own path, even if they die. Wow. That's a big one. But it's helped me through a lot of serious situations. I realize They have come for to learn particular lessons here and they are given choices to advance into their lives, or stagnate and repeat the karma they were born with.

Tomorrow is Vesak day which celebrates the birth, enlightenment and death of Buddha. So it seems auspicious to recognize this truth.

My mother also told me that having a child is like having your heart running around outside your body. I find that to be ultimately true and there are often times when I want to stick them back in there so I am guaranteed their safety and well being, but alas, they are on the loose. When I am afraid, or somehow threatened by their circumstances or behavior I have choices too.

One, I can freak out. Or two; I can trust them and the universe and now ask for the help of my mother is is a certified angel. Once I take this position which I call, surrender, I can function and assist my daughters in a way that is comfortable for them, not just a fulfillment of my agenda. I'm after master's degree, or should I say, Mothers' degree.

Nonetheless, it's full time job. A volunteer position at that. I was fantasizing yesterday about a world where a mother's work is compensated, or a matriarchal economy if you will. Doesn't that just flip your mind out.? Actually getting paid, or at least taken care of for our entire child rearing careers. That's 18 or 20 years depending on the kid.

Let me enlighten you with that vision for a moment. Instead of subsides for Oil and coal industries, financial investments would be made in our children in the form of housing, health and education. Mothers would be responsible for discovering their offspring's' natural talents, skills and abilities and providing, through the subsides, the proper tools and training for it.

Breast milk would be regarded as the most important medicine in a woman's pharmacy and she would be subsidized to share her bounty with the very sick to assist in their healing. Menstrual blood would be the best amendment to any one's garden. Menstrual blood has been used through the ages as an Earth fertilizer par excellence. During planting season, women would plant the seeds and then fertilize the ground with their menstrual blood. And if it were a Matriconomy, you wouldn't say eewww to that. But, hear me out.

There would be a vegetable garden in every yard and at the end of each meal a mother would receive compensation for extra ingredients and the time it took to prepare, serve and clean up.

Payment for Household chores would be allotted on a perdiem basis. And though there would be some form of currency, it would not dominate our existence. There would be no jobs or unemployment, we'd all just make a living

Oh, what a world it would be.

Furthermore, Dreams and oracles like tarot and astrology would have significant influence over decision making processes. All children would learn to sing and dance before they learned to read and write. Beauty would be a different standard. This is A place where teachers are rich and midwives are revered and ritual is as popular as baseball and football. And because of our uncompromised investment in our children they would grow up and be citizens of the world creating art and services that make the planet a better place. And war would cease because no mother would sacrifice her greatest investment for any reason.

This all might be true if the cultures 10,000 years ago had not been destroyed by the rise of war and domination. If this matreconomy were global we would have no child soldiers, no sex slavery, and the mothers in Syria, Yemen, Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq, Egypt, the Congo, etc, etc. Would have had a beautiful brunch on mother's day instead of hiding under the bed or running for their lives. Alas, back in the real world, as we sat down to eat yesterday we sent our prayers and strength to these and all mother's who volunteer their entire adult lives for this very worthy cause.