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This week’s Sunday Reads comes with a quiet nod to Mother’s Day — a day that holds tenderness, ache, celebration, and complexity, sometimes all at once.

Whether you’re mothering others, missing yours, or healing from a story you never asked for, may you feel the kind of care today that asks nothing of you in return.

Here’s what we shared last week, plus a special post from today:

• Today: A replay from our video series Letters From Prison — a heartfelt tribute about a mother’s enduring presence.
• Bee Sides: A reflection on travel, vulnerability, and the quiet way the world teaches us if we’re willing to be undone.
• Civics 101: Take five minutes to find out who represents you: locally, statewide, and nationally. Knowing is the first step to reclaiming your power.
• Good, Bad, Change: Freyja in Virginia shares her experience being an adopter.
• Fact Check Friday: Does everyone in prison deserve to be there?

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And here’s one you may have missed:

• Let Them Draw: A stamp, a pencil, and a paper-thin hope. See how people in prison turn scraps into connection — and what their envelope art reveals about longing, resilience, and creativity.