Everything starts as a Thought! A dissertation, a dress, an airplane, this article, or a national holiday such as Thanksgiving… The thoughts of Sarah Josepha Hale translated into action: she wrote letters to American politicians for 40 years(!) until Abraham Lincoln eventually proclaimed Thanksgiving a national holiday to be celebrated on the last Thursday of [...]
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Dancing With The Moon
Are your moods predictable? How about your sleepless nights? Fearless moments? Bashful bouts? “I don’t know what came over me!” we often exclaim, and usually we really don’t have a clue. Enters the Moon… Waxing and waning, the moon’s absolute predictable rhythm is change: two weeks of waxing followed by two weeks of waning, and [...]
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Coming Of Age: Let Your Daughter Find Her Song
Sing daughter sing Make a song And sing Beat out your own rhythms The rhythms of your life But make the song soulful And make life Sing ~ Micere Mugo Zimbabwe, 1970’s From; “I’m on my way running”, editors: Lynn Reese, Sean Wilkinson, Phyllis Koppelman. Avon books, 1975 Isn’t this the wish of every mother [...]
