Float Like a Butterfly

Happy Mother's Day, everybody!

I love a good photocopy. Kay Bond brought me a couple of them recently. One was Julia Ward Howe’s original Mother’s Day Proclamation:

Ephemera with ephemerals, May 10, 2026. Photograph by me. As I was taking this picture, I was happy to hear a bumblebee taking advantage of some nearby Uvularia grandiflora.

Here is the full text digitally.

The other was thi…