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World Wednesday/Re-blog Thursday: ‘The Goddess’

Thank you to all the women (& supportive men, and inbetween folk) who did The Women’s March for us; we are indeed all Goddesses, as we march, and as we age- this reblog post is so perfectly macro and micro #TIMESUP #thefutureisfemale

Empty Nest, Full Life

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I grew up as a good Catholic girl. In my world, God was man. He was a tall white man with a light brown beard and a white robe.

God was male.

But I’m not a little girl anymore.

Now I am a mother. I saw my own body grow and stretch and bend itself to give life to my three children. That made me wonder if perhaps the true deity was a woman.

I have been lucky enough to watch my daughter become a mother.  I watched her body grow and stretch and bend itself to give life to my grandchildren.  That made me suspect that I was right is seeing the true deity as a woman.

Today I helped my 87 year old mother as she took a shower, washed her hair, got dressed and settled herself into her favorite chair to rest after those efforts.

It wasn’t…

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  1. Coyote from Orion says

    Glad you are doing both. Your lifestyle looks interesting. Passed through Byron for about 10 minutes the other week. Had been about 20 years. Used the beach a bit further up on the Gold Coast.

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    • It’s a beautiful part of the world, but way too many tourists and hipsters around now… it’s all getting too expensive for the locals and artists… same old story : (

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      • Coyote from Orion says

        The road in was beautiful. Had been years. Yes, the commercialize spirituality if that isn’t a tautology

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