A Mother’s Day Meditation

It’s May and an adorable White-tailed fawn is curled up by the house garden or alone by the side of the road. With one look—its big black eyes and long lashes, wobbling on its unsure newborn legs, and fur speckled with white dots—we can feel our hearts melting just a little bit inside. Naturally, we want to mother the apparently helpless creature by taking it home to care for it, because we’ve assumed the little guy is Bambied (orphaned or abandoned by the mother doe). In actuality, “99 times out of 100 that’s simply not the case,” says Charles Ruth, wildlife biologist and Deer Project Supervisor for the S.C. Department of Natural Resources (DNR).

 No, it’s not a culinary club for comic book heroes, but it does represent a partnership between two forces for good – Main Street Beaufort and the Historic Beaufort Foundation. Thursday May 17^th these two organizations will unveil the inaugural assembly of The Supper Society, a dining extravaganza held in a secret location prepared by two master chefs. The proceeds from the evening go to local preservation and revitalization efforts. The location and menu will be revealed to ticket holders two days before the event.

Life-size oil paintings of “Goddesses in World Cultures” will be featured all summer (June 1 – September 1) at the Bluffton Branch of the Beaufort County Library System, 120 Palmetto Way, Bluffton. The work of artist and author Mary B. Kelly of Hilton Head, will display deities from Europe, Asia and the Americas. These also form the illustrations for Kelly’s book Goddess, Women, Cloth, published in 2012 and available on Amazon and Kindle.

Writing a book review – or even a book preview – of a book I haven’t read is probably a bad idea. So let’s not call this either of those things.

   The other day, while I was browsing in cyberspace, the title of a new book by Gregory Wolfe caught my eye: Beauty Will Save the World. Catchy, huh? A bold pronouncement. A firm handshake of a title.