Celebrate International Women’s Day – Every Day!
Let’s do it: Celebrate International Women’s Way – Every Day! This year, check out a most exciting and ambitious endeavour: Room to Read history: She Creates Change, a multimedia storytelling project. An animated video delves in to number of girls’ and women’s stories and project as they are doing incredibly brave and ground breaking things...
Bee Kind: What a Difference It Makes!
Bee KInd: What a difference it makes! Here is a lovely teaching story I read on the internet and had to share because I find it so inspiring. Besides, I LOVE bees 🙂 “My dad has bees. Today I went to his house and he showed me all of the honey he had gotten from...
Want Inspiration? Try Clara Schumann!
I recently had the opportunity to attend a Concert by all Women Composers. One of the pieces, a piano concerto, was by Clara Wieck Schumann. Cycling around the next day, with the music still in my head and heart, the title, Want inspiration? Try Clara Schumann, kept popping up!! I had heard about a Clara who...
International Women’s Day — Inspiring Change!
Today, March 8, is widely recognized as International Women’s Day. It’s telling that we mark such a day. (Can you imagine International Men’s Day?) It’s clearly worth celebrating how far women’s rights have come. One could imagine a time when we can drop the day, since Women’s Rights Are Human Rights, as my blog post...
Life is a Splendid Torch!
It’s almost Summer Solstice, Oh, my. It did come very fast this year! I found myself thinking a few days ago, Gosh. The days are way toooo long! (By that I meant the days seemed to slip away — it still seemed like afternoon and it was almost 9 pm! I had planned a leisurely evening, reading,...
Blooming and Encouragement
…these two topics intertwine in my heart and soul as Spring Equinox approaches… a time of rebirth, growth, blossoming… And I want to share two links with you, to TED talks that touched me deeply, and speak of the aliveness, the vitality, the absolute awesomeness of our potential… Ron Finley is a guerilla gardener...
Creativity — Metalmorphosis!
Last Saturday we went south to join family and grandkids for an outing to the Bellingham Technical College‘s 2012 Welding Rodeo. Now that’s not an event I would have chosen on my own, but one of Mike’s sons is a welder — Jeff fabricates steel and aluminum into impressive objects. We’ve talked about some of the...
Dance! There’s No Tomorrow!
Today is May Day, half way between Spring Equinox and Summer Solstice, also called Beltane. What better way to celebrate this ebullient and delicious turning than to Dance! I started to write Dance Like There’s No Tomorrow! but then I thought better, and left out the ‘Like’, because there IS no tomorrow, there’s only today! A...
Update: Perfection and Projects
This morning I listened to a talk by Peter Baumann on Terry Patton’s inspiring Beyond Awakening Series. This is a free series, with a host of luminaries as guest speakers, about the evolution of human consciousness, the future of spiritual practice, and a rich array of related topics. I bring this series to your attention in...
