Oh my goodness! Hats off to Sandy Thorn Clark who has published a feature,
The power of pink, that is uber-pink. If your mother likes pink, and you want to celebrate Mother's Day in all-things-pink, you will find plentiful pointers on how to go pink. Many events and activities have been creatively planned pink to celebrate Mother's Day and raise awareness for breast cancer at the same time. Even hunky baseball players will be swinging baby pink baseball bats for the day. Other than the obvious pink decorations, pink clothing, pink hats, pink wristbands, pink flowers and pink nail polish -- here are a few of Clark's pink suggestions to celebrate your mother:
- Easy to blend vitamin-rich pink smoothies with strawberries, pineapple, peaches, pears and vanilla yogurt. Or you could try a mix of strawberries, bananas, and apple-strawberry juice -- or raspberry, orange juice, strawberries and bananas. A pink milkshake can be made blending 2 cups milk, 1/2 cup raspberry jam and 3 to 4 scoops vanilla ice cream, garnished with fresh berries.
- Create pink cream puffs by mixing a small amount of raspberry puree or preserves into the whipped cream filling for cream puffs.
- A pink punch can be made for a group by mixing two 12-ounce cans pink lemonade concentrate and 6 cups water in a punch bowl. Add four 12-ounce cans lemon-lime soda. Just before serving, add scoops of strawberry sorbet or raspberry sherbet.
- Listen to the music of Pink and watch movies with pink titles such as Pretty in Pink or The Pink Panther. You get the idea.
But wait! There's more. These are not all the suggestions for going pink on Mother's Day. For more ideas or to be inspired by pink ideas of your own,
go here.
1. Mother's Day started as mothers recognized the need to quit sending sons and daughters off to war, and began Mother's Day. Like most things (INTERNET NEXT?)that begin with an orientation to helping make us more human, Mom's Day has become more and more commercial; "Buy-something-for- Mom Day". The original answer to a need has faded into the oblivion of our Disney-esque 'reality'.
I came to this blog expecting at least some mention those in DC, Cindy Sheehan and Susan Sarandon among them. But you left that up to me to tout Code Pink.
Posted at 8:27PM on May 13th 2006 by g waters