We can and do remember mothers who are no longer with us in the way we were accustomed, as supportive, nurturing physical and emotional presence as we made our way in the world. But as that physical presence moves on, we can also look to our mother earth, whose physicality keeps nurturing us, and from whose life we and our human mothers sprung. As we celebrate our human mothers, let us now, and , I hate to have to say, ESPECIALLY now, celebrate the gift of God that is our home; our COMMON HOME. Let us articulate that celebration in words but also in our living and in our communal acts as citizens of that world.