You knew this was coming, didn’t you? I want to make sure that if you are reading this, and are a woman of any sort, that you know you are an Iconic Woman, and that you are iconically feminine. You have control over this. Words are powerful and whatever you see yourself as, whatever you […]
Iconic T: Titles
This morning I began thinking about hereditary titles when the British Royal family grew by one. I heard more than one talking head saying that it was so 21st Century for the line of succession to have been changed so that daughters of Kings and male heirs would inherit ahead of sons born after them. […]
Anonymous No Longer Needs To Be a Woman
Virginia Woolf wrote in the early 20th Century For most of history, anonymous was a woman. It seems fitting to start out a month of 26 posts, from A to Z, and centered on the topic of The Iconic Feminine with a look at feminine anonymity. This exercise is prompted by the annual April A […]
Democracy Needs Women's Wisdom
Until women reach an equitable distribution in shared governance it is questionable whether a true democracy can exist. I am writing about some of the considerations of how women’s wisdom might or does influence the development of democratic governance, not a critique of any one government nor any one poltical party. In fact, the article I read […]
Wisdom and Collective Good
At this juncture in history most people, even those caught up into the fervent and oppositional clash of extremist politics, can recognize the global scope of the turbulence of this point in time. Far beyond any one political perspective or concern, the current dysfunction is evidence of Koyanasqatsi, or life out of balance. The rise of […]
BoomHer Wisdom
Boomers were not called Boomers until the late 1970s. And the truth is that there are at least two primary groups of Boomers. The first half of the population bump that happened between 1946 and 1964 were the people too young to be beatniks, but old enough to be cannon fodder for the war in […]