Maybe my mother knew about Jarvis, who spent her inheritance and older years fighting against what the celebration had become. Jarvis was even arrested in 1923 for staging a protest.
Jarvis saw the purchasing of greeting cards as a sign of being too lazy to pen a personal note.
My mother was totally against cards, presents or flowers, and I suspect she even would have balked at a hand-written note.
Bernice Smiley said the only satisfactory tribute her children could provide was to follow her teachings every day of every year.
In short, my mother wanted something the department stores, candy shops and florists didn’t have on their shelves.
I wasn’t the kind of kid to question social norms and I certainly didn’t know anything about commercialization. I simply wanted to be like every other kid. So my mother was the culprit. my mother was the weirdo.
All the other kids got to talk about what they were getting their mom for the big day, and I simply took to making up stuff. What kid on the block is going to talk about giving the gift of obedience and living a life according to some something dumb called a family value system?
History, as is said, has a way of repeating itself.
“What kind of flowers are you giving?” my older daughter’s friend, Marie, asked my daughter Pamela.
Marie didn’t take Pamela’s word that I didn’t want flowers, to go out to dinner or any of the other commercial rewards that Jarvis, founder of our day, had protested.
When Marie arrived at our house with a beautiful orchid and an oversized card, she found me in ragged work clothes, digging holes and pulling weeds.
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Arrow Rock Community fire Department Chairman of the Board Dennis Gessling drove the 1986 Hahn pumper truck from the Arrow Rock station to his shop.
