05/10/2026
Happy Mother’s Day to the mothers raising babies, raising grown children, raising nieces and nephews, raising friends, raising animals, raising communities, and raising themselves.
To the women who ache to be mothers.
To the women who cannot be mothers.
To the mothers who have lost children.
To the children who have lost mothers.
To the stepmothers, grandmothers, chosen mothers, foster mothers, single mothers, exhausted mothers, healing mothers, and mother figures who show up with love every single day.
Today belongs to all the different shapes motherhood can take — and all the grief, joy, longing, tenderness, and strength that come with it.
And most of all Happy Mother’s Day to my beautiful Mother. The last photo is of me and my Mother.
