The Write-Down #18
Each week here at downboy, LLC, we like to take a moment to get to know a little more about our amazing team. One question. Three Answers. No judgment.
A day set aside to honor mothers exists in nearly all cultures and dates back thousands of years, but the modern incarnation dates back to 1887, when, according to The Old Farmer’s Almanac, Mary Towles Sasseen, a teacher from Henderson, Kentucky, led her class in the first known observance of Mother’s Day. She traveled the country and wrote a pamphlet to share her vision of a special day set aside to honor moms. Years later, The national day of recognition in the United States came to fruition through the work of Ann Reeves Jarvis, Julia Ward Howe, and Ann’s daughter Anna M Jarvis. We won’t get into the details here, but it did take a surprisingly long time for the idea to finally make it through congress and onto the president’s desk in 1914, when Woodrow Wilson signed a bill designating the second Sunday in May as a legal holiday dedicated “to the best mother in the world, your mother.”
What did you do to honor ‘the best mother in the world’ on her day?
“Brunch out was not great. Mom’s was so bad she was taking her leftovers home to feed the dog.”
E. W., Controller
“I made a phone call and gave the gift of not seeing her and transmitting my COVID.”
Cindy Nevermore, Collections
“As an ongoing non-participant in what is considered ‘appropriate’ behavior in situations like this…well, it wasn’t nothing.”
G. Smith, Consultant
