This is not just another day. This is Mother’s Day, and a day for appreciating the mother in your life, and for some of us, remembering our mothers who have passed on through heaven’s gates. “The young mother set her foot on the path of life,” late novelist Irene Temple Bailey wrote in her 1933 A Little Parable for Mothers, in what some of us believe is the most poignant tribute to mothers. “Is the way long?” she asked. And her guide said, ‘Yes, and the way is hard.