Mother’s Day 2021: Five Staff Picks by Orion Staff May 6, 2021
Photograph: Wolf Ademeit
FOR NEARLY FORTY YEARS,
Orion has curated some of the best writing and photography about the relationship between people and nature. This Mother’s Day,
Orion staff selected five of our most memorable recent pieces about motherhood, about the strength and compassion, the joy and fatigue and courage sustained by all mothers of the world.
Spring 2021
Art: Gustav Klimt, Mutter mit Zwei Kindern (Familie), 1910 | 2012 legat peter parzer, Wien, Austria
“Offill allows her characters to mother in a plurality of ways: giving birth to children of their own; offering child care for the children of neighbors or relatives; educating or advocating for the children of all. Mothering, in the world she draws, can be a wide-ranging act. Love of the young is capacious. Caring for their lives has no biological requirement.”