I have always held out hope that women will discover a way to keep violence, greed, and hate from growing in our hearts and society so far we haven’t done that. Peace and love seems to have a flip side of protect (in-group)and drive away out-group). It is the old oxytocin problem, loving mama bear becomes raging protective mama bear.
They Could Not Have Known
Today America remembers attacks on our eastern shores that transpired 9/11/2001. This anniversary in 2015, the 14th anniversary, has many people focusing on children who were born on that day. On Sept. 11, 2001, 13,238 children were born in the United States, according to the Division of Vital Statistics. Today one of those children, Emily […]
The Two Mothers of Mother's Day
The real story of Mother’s Day is beginning to be be recognized. What is so often thought of as a day to be nice to your mother has far more complexity, spirituality, and politics sewn into it than most contemporary people know. No matter how you slice it, the history of Mother’s Day is intimately […]
International Women's Day 2014
One thing I admire about women’s activism is that it is like a session on a trampoline or the net beneath a high wire acrobatics. I visualize it as women standing on a web or net that overlays a map of the country or globe. As individual women change activist levels to attend to family, work, […]