Be the best kid on the block
Mother’s Day is May 13th. Now that you know, you don’t have any excuse for buying flowers at the eleventh hour. Instead, treat the artistically inclined lady in your life (wife, mother, sister with kids?) to Nikki McClure’s woodcut broadside at Buy Olympia. With 20,000 young sons and daughters being sent into the frontlines of the surge in Iraq, the original text of Julia Ward Howe’s 1872 Mother’s Day Proclimation is duly meaningful. Plus, you’ll be a patron of both the arts and charity: proceeds from the poster go to the Fertile Ground Community Center (a nonprofit learning center for sustainable living practices). The 6″ x 14″ poster is just $4.00 and ships unframed in a rigid mailer.
Or, if you’re feeling ambitious, make a woodblock print yourself.
