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Mothers as Building Blocks of Life
Thanks to Jeanne Faulconer, editor of Home Education Magazine, for this recent post on the editor's blog. She pointed out that, while learning science along with her youngest child, she encountered a bigger glimpse of mothering.
"Matter," meaning the actual mass of our universe whether liquid, solid or gas, is a word that comes from the Latin term "materia" which itself has roots in that Latin word "mater." What's "mater?" The Latin word for "mother." An even more ancient definition is "womb."
What does this etymology mean to you? The implications are more poetic than realistic, but beautiful nonetheless.
Mothers are the source of all matter?
Mothering creates the world?
Mother Earth is more than a casual term?
The primary source is feminine?
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"If I had the influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over
the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in
the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last
throughout life, an unfailing antidote against the boredom and
disenchantment of later years, sterile preoccupations with things that are
artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength."
- Rachel Carson
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