“it matters what voices you listen to, it matters what books you read, it matters what you buy, what you do with your money if you have it and how you interact with those who don’t have it, it matters who you surround yourself with and why, it matters where you put your life labor, it matters where you put your love labor, it matters where you put your creative labor and what you create and why, it matters what you let into your life and what you are willing to live with, it matters what your relationship to the planet is or isn’t, it matters how you respond to danger at the door…even if it’s at your neighbor’s door.”
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
-Helen Keller
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends”
-Martin Luther King Jr.
Love is, as always, prevailing in the ethers that bind us. Cohesive, firm, immersed in the knowledge that we are all equal. There is no other possible outcome than that of equity for all precious humans and animals on the planet, and for the mother Earth herself.
From sunrise’s sweet pastels over the grandfather mountains to sunset’s golden colors bathing every person, rock, waterway, mountain, winged one, and animal, there is softness, sweetness, and truth.
Love will prevail. Love is prevailing.
May we all be Love Warriors, vigilant, persistent, focused, and true.
“There is nothing like a dream to create the future.”
-Victor Hugo
“My dream is of a place and time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.”
-Abraham Lincoln
“Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.”
-Khalil Gabran
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”
“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.”
-Audre Lorde
“I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.”
-Theodore Roosevelt
“I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.”
-Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
“Equality is not a concept. It’s not something we should be striving for. It’s a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women, and the misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance, and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who’s confronted with it. We need equality. Kinda now.”
-Joss Whedon
“A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.”
-Gloria Steinem
“If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.”
– John F. Kennedy
“To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man’s injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man’s superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?”
[To the Women of India (Young India, Oct. 4, 1930)]”
-Mahatma Gandhi
“If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.”
“The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind.”
-Charles Darwin
Bears are not companions of men, but children of God, and His charity is broad enough for both. Yet bears are made of the same dust as we, and breathe the same winds and drink of the same waters. A bear’s days are warmed by the same sun, his dwellings are overdomed by the same blue sky, and his life turns and ebbs with heart-pulsings like ours and was poured from the same fountain…”
– John Muir
The language that nature uses, how do we touch it, know it? It surely exists on a plane that some access readily, but most humans aren’t close enough to understand.
I love this time lapse video showing the loveliness of mushrooms sprouting from the forest floor, their umbrellas unfurling majestically. It speaks to me, but the language is clearer, louder when I’m the forest itself, listening…. listening.
“Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are ‘patches of Godlight’ in the woods of our experience.”
