Mother’s Day is Sunday, May 12.
The pages of this edition offer many ideas for places to go or things to do on Mother’s Day.
As you consider how to celebrate, consider this: Who has done more for each of us than our mothers?
We literally owe them our lives.
And when was the last time we expressed any appreciation for this life-giving, or anything they have done since?
It is hard to think of a holiday more worthy of celebration.
And yet how much time or thought do we give to Mother’s Day, particularly in comparison to our celebrations of magical bunny rabbits, elves, and monsters?
PIPE DREAMS?
We first heard about the Damariscotta River Association’s wacky plan to connect its Great Salt Bay Farm with Round Top Farm some years ago and thought it, well, ambitious.
But this organization – now unified with the Pemaquid Watershed Association as Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust – continues to amaze us with the way it pursues and accomplishes ambitious goals and provides connections to nature and our region’s heritage that are accessible to all.
We congratulate Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust on its move into its new headquarters and look forward to the future of this new organization.
FISHING LUCK
The coincidences in the rescue of a fisherman from Damariscotta Lake last month are almost too many to count.
The timing of the rescuer’s vacation. The weather. His decision to go out on the lake that day. The timing of his arrival on the lake due to a delay on his way there. He wasn’t wearing headphones. He was in a different part of the lake than normal. The lake was completely silent. Why?
It almost seems supernatural.
Call it fate or karma or luck or, like the survivor, an act of God – something extraordinary happened on the lake that day.
But it’s also a story we hear often: of how Mainers and people in our community stop to help each other and expect nothing in return.
In addition to the man’s initial rescuer, a whole lot of other people deserve credit for his survival – the rescuer’s friend on shore, the first responders, the ambulance crew, and the medical staff at two hospitals.
