Ethel Woods is 95 years old and completely blind. She attends Helping Hands at the Seventh Day Adventist Church in Penn Valley and enjoys writing poetry. She lives in Penn Valley with her son, and offered this poem for Mother's Day:

Mother’s Love

The sweetest love in this big, big world

Is a mother’s love – she is precious as a pearl.

She gave us life; that’s why we are here.

God bless our mothers that we hold so dear.

They fed our dogs and fed our cats.

They read to us when we were brats.

They cook and clean and sew our clothes.

They hold a Kleenex so we can blow our nose.

They love their husbands and are good to them...

Also, their neighbors, friends and kin.

They give up their sons to fight in our wars,

So how can we ask them anything more?

— By Ethel Woods