Happy Mother Language Day
The language our mothers spoke to us and sang us to sleep in, the language of love and protection.
We have several mothers;
our fathers who sing us awake while our mothers lie exhausted because we've sung them awake all through the night with our gurgles and screams;
our father sun, first among them.
Then we have the languages of the earth that nourish us with their sighs and whispers, and unsettle us with their groans and screams. The languages drawn from her womb that calm us through the rustle of leaves.
And we too are mothers as we nurture and sustain both ourselves and others. And we speak and sing, creating through sounded words that have drawn their energy from all that was sung and heard down the ages.
Tell me what your heart sings, this mother language day?
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