linklove. [#105]

"whether or not a baby has ever miraculously come out of your body, you are a mother. you have helped mother me, or your sister, or your girlfriend, or your cousin, or your neighbor, or a stranger. you have wiped a tear or a bottom. you have given counsel. you have talked someone you love off a ledge. you have nurtured and natured and gently nudged her to keep going when she was sure she couldn't. you have read a storybook, shoveled a walk, waved across the parking lot, not even realizing you were saving someone's life."

[jena strong via andrea scher: mother's day for everybody]