Happy Mother’s Day,

with love and gratitude for all mothers everywhere.

To the exhausted woman,

You run on fumes and still show up.

To the invisible woman,

Your unseen labour has been the foundation all along.

To the woman who loves deeply,

Your love is the softest and most ferocious force in the Universe.

To the powerful woman, 

You hold mountains steady. You rebuild. You endure and then you rise…and the whole world shifts because of it.

To the mamas of fur babies,

Love is love in any language — paw, purr, or wag. You give your whole heart and that is everything.

To the caretakers of our precious Papatūānuku (Earth Mother),

and to any woman who holds space and nurtures others…

Every woman who nurtures, protects, and tends to soil, to spirit, to strangers… you are also mother. You, too, belong here.

To every woman who has ever poured herself out so something else could bloom…

I see you.

I honour you. 

I love you. 

You are the soil and the sun.

You are the hands that stayed.

You are the quiet and the roar.

You are the reason love

knows its own name. 💖