earth mother

Leigh French, as the hippie earth mother in the segment “Share a Little Tea With Goldie,” always appeared to have been drinking something brewed through more than just tea leaves.

In Native Hawaiian lore, it is the first-born son of the sky father and earth mother.

Ted Danson, her “Cheers” co-star, once called her “a biker chick crossed with an earth mother” and praised her lack of self-consciousness.

But in that telepathic moment between the sisters, Serena was not tennis’s earth mother.

Haloa was the first child of the earth mother and father and was stillborn.