Mother's Day: To all Mothers, our love, gratitude, and thanks.

Very little anyone can write that has not been written a zillion times.

On a personal celebration, the following few memories stand out.

A. She Carried me for 7 months, an early delivery for a new born that had less than 50% chance survival rate including her own.

B. Took care of me until I left home at age 19, without ever being mad, at the same time protecting me with unfiltered love, leaving discipline to my father. 

C. She instilled in me the belief that the main destination and limit in life were the stars.

D. Being born in middle of the Greek Civil War, she protected me from the communist posted prize on the life of my father, a police officer fighting them in Thessaly, and our whole family by hiding in a remote village. 

E. She let me leave Greece and her side to go to school in the US with only one promise that I will return after finishing my studies, which I never fulfilled when I met and married my wife.

F. She adored her grandchildren and fed them on every chance that their,,,,, mouth was open.

G. There are anecdote, moments, events, and memories about her to fill the pages of several books, that someday I will find the time to write, and they will be worth reading. In English, she was a character.

-Yannis
P.S. Mothers are the carriers and givers of life and as such do not need a DNA test as proof while being only one in every person's life. So every year on this day and everyday of the year celebrate them with respect and love that they earn around 9 months before your birth. 

​