Mother's Day Manifesto

The world is changing. The planet is shrinking. Possibilities are expanding. The lines of cultural division are blurring. No one on Earth is more than a day's travel or a dial-up modem away from each other. The universal society of the Internet has levelled the planetary playing field to a single unit: citizens of the new millennium. Similarly, what it means to be a Gill Girl is changing. Our possibilities seem to get more wide open every day. The world around us seems to grow ever smaller as we travel farther and more often and meet dozens more people every week. Even our family relationships are morphing-- Mom is two time zones, two thousand miles and a zillion schedule conflicts away. The only thing that has and will remain the same is the strength behind these relationships.

This is the first Mother's Day we've been apart. Really, the significance of the day is minimal-- invented by Hallmark sometime in the last century to sell cards and guilt and wrapping paper. For us, Mother's Day is every day we're together. We're all busy planning a week's worth of Mother's Days (to be accompanied with First- and Second-Cousin's, Aunt's and Uncle's and Grandmother's Days) for late July in Lake Tahoe. This page is initially a celebration and sounding board of our ideas for that trip, and hopefully will bloom into a new form of communication to encorporate into every day of our new lives.