Amazon Kindle Scribe (2022)
The Kindle Scribe is Amazon’s first foray into digital note-taking — but it needs software updates to become an indispensable reading and writing companion.
Pros
Large, bright display
Speedy performance
Comfortable writing experience
Cons
Too large for some reading situations Lacks water resistance
Note-taking experience merely adequate work toward peace and justice. As peace activist Ursula Franklin famously asserted, “Peace is not the absence of war … it is the presence of justice.”
Instead of buying something, talk, connect, act with others. Teach your children about the diversity of families. Teach them too about the families denied the chance to celebrate Mother’s Day.
Contribute to a Mother’s Day campaign like Mama’s Bail Out, and support the work to reform bail practices. The Mama’s Bail Out Day project works to bail out mothers in time for Mother’s Day, an effort that is true to the original intent of this day. Local organizations across the U.S. have taken up this challenge.
As in Canada, they also are fighting for reform of the criminal justice system. In both the U.S. and Canada, a majority of those incarcerated are not convicted but are awaiting bail hearings or trials, with profoundly disproportionate effects on Black and Indigenous communities.
Mother’s Day could also be a time to support groups like FEAT (fostering, empowering, advocating, together), which helps the 50,000 children of incarcerated mothers in Ontario.
The activism that inspired Mother’s Day is not dusty historical trivia. My own daughter is part of its ongoing thread; her new school is inspired by the work of Ursula Franklin, who as a member of the Voice of Women not only participated in Mother’s Day vigils for peace, but also tested the baby teeth of children (including her own) for radioactive strontium. Her research galvanized mothers across the country to convince the U.S. government to stop atmospheric nuclear testing.
So if on Mother’s Day your mother says, “For one day, I would love the whole family to get along and not argue,” then in fact, as retired teacher Sharon Montgomery suggests she would be in tune with Julia Ward Howe’s proclamation: “When families live in peace, they take the first step toward peace on our planet.”