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TeaPhotography — Celebrate all kinds of Moms
Published: 2009-05-08 03:48:18 +0000 UTC; Views: 1341; Favourites: 64; Downloads: 0
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To my dear Mom, who had serious complications after major back surgery, just recently. It's very hard, at times, to live far away from eeeeveryone, I mean especially those friends/family you love and care about so much, but especially during emergency, scary, and challenging times.Anyway, we're usually not together on most all holidays since they've moved [Thanksgiving, being the only exception], but I'll still be celebrating my mother, for all she's done and all of her efforts, because it is NOT easy being a parent and grandparent.
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This is also dedicated to my Sister-in-Law, N., who lives where my mom does... the mother of my THREEE BEAUTIFUL nieces, and one nephew- even if he does not live with them anymore.
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This is also dedicated to the wonderful "Mouse", [my "sis" and "cosmic twin"] the wife of ~Tawnish who is the mother of my other BEAUTIFUL niece, in Germany...
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This is also dedicated to my Aunt Cindy who never had biological children of her own, but has been an awesome aunt all my life, and aunts are also Mom-like. At least mine is.
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And to the Others... To AAAALLLLL the other Mothers out there...
and whether or not you have physically biologically given birth or not, I celebrate ALL TYPES of Mothers.
I celebrate my long time friend from high school, who recently adopted a baby.
I celebrate a friend I just met last November who took in her nephews due to a serious family situation, and takes care of them full time, helping them constantly with their homework, etc. ...
I celebrate anyone who has ever raised, cared for, loved anyone, even if they themselves didn't actually give birth.
I celebrate anyone who has ever taken care of any other living beings, even pets, animals, sick people, and/or any kind of Life in need in any capacity.
Some of us are more nurturing, some of us are more inspiring, some of us are part of both- I celebrate the "Mother-qualities" in all of us, and I celebrate all types and kinds of Mothers,
because a real Mother=Love.
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Comments: 34
Beautiful pic and a beautiful thought. Hope things are doing better with your mom.
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Hey! (: I've featured your work in my journal, ( [link] ), and in the news! ( [link] ) Don't forget to look at the other features!
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I really really do appreciate this.
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Very lovely, Tea. Wonderful pic and the writing, well, the writing..what can I say? Thanks so much for sharing.
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Thank you Sirrah, your visiting on this one especially means very much to me, just cause you understand somewhat of what I've been through and these Mother issues.
Happy Mother's Day to you and to us all who "Mother" others.
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You're more than welcome, Tea. 
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love, LOVE, L.O.V.E.
Thank you from the bottom of my HEART!
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Why thank you soooo much.
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Happy mothers day to ur mother dear and thanks to celebrating ours
I dont know if u have kids but it isnt important cos everyeach day is wonderful to alive healthly and have to someone to give my love. I have a son and bird and a fish and some flowers. They feel my love cos im kissing as my son even my bird or flowers when they blossommed
Anyway, happy days to u too
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Thank you for all the Mother Day WISHES! You are so kind and sweet.
I think you completely and totally "get" it.
You're right, it's not important if I have kids of my own, in the instance of this Mothers concept.
It is only important to have "Mother-qualities" and to show LOVE to others, because that's what makes a REAL mother.
The truth is, I do not have my own biological children. A long time ago, this use to be an awful horrible thing for me...
I was told it would be a miracle if I ever had one of my own. So I decided to try medically to have my own biological children. It was a long horrible experience. I finally had one pregnancy, but miscarried the whole thing- they were triplets.
I had very very had issues with the concept of Mothers, and the holiday of Mother's Day, but with much help, years of healing, and Martial Arts training 
I have a braaaaand new and more WHOLE VIEW on what motherhood really is.
Thank you for your comment soooo much, it meant the world to me.
Happy Mother's Day to YOU- your son, your bird, your fish, your flowers, are all soooo blessed to have YOU!
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i love the pic, but the title, its that time of year again when all you lot get to play with your mummy's and mine just wants me to die
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P.S. I changed the title to match more specifically the content in my artists comments which I was really trying to express to include all people who are capable of expressing love and care to others, including pets and Life/Earth in general.
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oh, im sorry if i upset you or sounded horrible, i always get like that this time of year. blame my mother, Marie Yevette Barton-Hanson
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No way dear, no sorry is necessary, certain holidays are very triggering for people- MOther's Day is NO exception, in fact it can be a very sensitive time of year for many of us.
I know you are included in that.
It's okay, you should feel free to express yourself wherever I am concerned.
Hey, I used to have HUGE MAJOR ISSUES with this holiday-- for a few years I completely HID from it, completely...
Until I began some major healing processes, [mentally, not physically- as my physical state is unchanged]
And as a result, I began to see this holiday, this time of year, the concept of MOTHERS and Mother-hood in SUUUCH a whole new way and light.
It's a beautiful way to see it, too, and I feel soooo much better by it all.
I hope you will, too.
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No, read more than the title, as in "artist comments"... it's the celebration of people in general, all people with *real* mother qualities, the type of qualities that emit love.
It's way more than "just biology" that's for sure, which is exactly why I wrote the artist comments.
I have my own very personal reasons for feeling this way, my own self.
And I do a lot of writing this very time of year having to do with "motherhood" being so much more than the biological physical birth process, which is very therapeutic for me and what my issues are.
And no, as I also write in comments, I don't get to play with my mom, she lives waaaaay too far away and I rarely spend any holidays with her, and I rarely ever see her.
I know you have your issues, and I know quite a few people over the years with similar...
This is for YOU... because you have true Mother-qualities, I know how well you love and take care of cats and kittens and that is a type of mom.
This is part of my point in the body of the message
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OMG, i don't know what to say to that. i feel honored that you think so. wow, i do long to be a mother, its one constant in my life. do you have kids, or plan to have any
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You already are a mother to your kittens and cats, that is a type of mother.
I know many women who don't actually have biological children, and they are some of the BEST mothers I know. I've learned a lot from them, and from this realization!
And no, I do not have children of my own,
I tried at one point in my life, after being told it would be some sort of miracle if it ever happened-- it was a horribly gruesome process trying to achieve pregnancy, medically, after finding out such devastating news, and the result was finally a single pregnancy in my life, in which I miscarried the whole thing- triplets.
And that is my main issue.
No, I do not plan to do it ever again, it scraped me dry mentally, emotionally, and financially, forever.
And this is a big part of what my "Mother" issues, are.
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oh my god, im so sorry for you. someone like you should never go through that. i hope to the gods it never happens to me, i don't think i could handle it. at the mo, my cousins wife is preg with twins, i put a charm on a crystal for here, then she was preg after 2 years of trying, i have the crystal now, n going to pass it on to a friend of mine who has been told it would never happen for her. why is it that the best mums don't get to be mums.
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Your last sentence/question has always plagued me so much, but moreso in reverse.
I used to be and get soooo freakin' angry when I'd see a whole slew of neglected looking children being screamed at in a parking lot by an obviously hateful mother who was obviously very full in her 3rd trimester i.e. "pregnant with yet another one" that she wouldn't bathe and otherwise abuse, etc.
I use to cry everytime I'd see scenes like that. I live in an area which is especially extra high in pregnant women who have lots of children....
I don't want to get too much into that...
but I used to think why do THEY get to be moms and to soooo many who NEED loving compassionate caring parents???
Life is just mysterious, Sam. I used to be very angry at how backwards and confusing everything was. Until I just came to believe that life is a balance of BOTH fate AND randomness.
I have to believe that it is somewhat random as well, otherwise I would not have survived everything that happened with and to me regarding my experiences trying to have biological children.
[i mean, truly, i gave you the shortest version possible...]
I mean people have told me, and use to tell me THEN when I was going through all of that, that I was a good person, and would be a good mom [oh I also had a career in education, working with/teaching children, which also made it worse, because I was surrounded with caring and loving other people's children daily and responsible for them to learn.]
But it only hurt worse to hear that I was a good person, because I would think it must not be true if such a very primitive basic life choice was being taken away from me, with NO consent from me- that I must have done something wrong somewhere along the line to deserve such punishment...
However, it's okay... no need to be sorry... the other things I've gone through to try to heal from all of this has been massive- MASSIVE.
I even have my teeny triplet in a photo frame now. I look at them daily and I do not cry anymore, but I still "send" them love, you know what I mean.
Because you and I are on similar-ish wave length spiritually, I want you to know I know what you mean about using similar things like charms or the like....
Besides just medical, *everything* was tried then, I mean it.
Somethings truly aren't meant to be, and it may have nothing to do with whether someone is bad or good or deserving or not. Yes, it is a very challenging concept to not only understand but ACCEPT. But this is part of my life.
I have been a mother to my nieces and nephews to my two dogs for 14 years, and to my [now] five cats. I have mothered or cared for many sick people as well, and have helped a lot of people in need.
When my students would "accidentally" call me mom, I'd say, "It's okay, teachers are moms and moms are teachers... same difference." THey'd giggle and think that was funny, but when they get older I think they'll remember those types of things that I told them, and these are ways that I am a mother.
It's not the same think as giving birth to another human, but there are many ways to be a mom.
I celebrate you already, NOW.
I celebrate me. I celebrate all people who are capable of mom-ness and actively being moms in all the possible ways there are to do that.
Thank you so much for talking about all this with me.
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wow, what happened to you so many years ago? what caused all this?
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Thank you kindly!
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Welcome Lady Teaness
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You rock Senor Daveness.
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