I was recently involved in a Facebook discussion about menstruation, rights of passage, the giveaway ritual etc. While reading through the comments, sharing some of the insights with my daughter (who began her transition to womanhood last year) and looking at the videos, and then the next day mulling it over some more, it became…
Author: gaiaswisdom
Immigration and World Poverty
A very interesting visual by immigration author and journalist Roy Beck on the policy of using immigration to “end world poverty”. Perhaps it’s time for an “outside the box” plan to help them “bloom where they’re planted”? He’s not saying do nothing – his point is, current policy is not working and can never work….
And so ends 2013…
And so ends 2013… By all accounts a shocking year for many. But why? What happened? 2012 began with two extremes: the End-of-Dayers on the one hand telling us it would all be over on 21/12/12 (though I always wondered why they didn’t pick 12/12/12); and the Age of Aquarians on the other promising a…
31 October … again
Ah 31 October – my fave and least fave time of year! Favourite because I love Beltane! The celebration of love, life and an awakening world which is happening right now in my southern hemisphere. My least favourite because we are battered in the press, online and in community by misconceptions of the season, the…