Unfurl would like to devote these pages to the amazing women met in our travels at markets and festivals.

If any of these stories are yours, please let us know who you are.

The Letting Go Woman:

In came these two glorious women. They’d left their husbands and children to enjoy Nannup Music Festival and treat themselves to a weekend of sounds. Chat, chat, chat and one of the ladies revealed that her 18 year young son had just left home that weekend to move to Perth. He embraced his mama at the door as he left and said This feels weird doesn’t it mum?”

This lady had me in tears – the beauty of an 18 year old man acknowledging his mother’s love and nurturing for all the years he grew up at home – what a wonderful addition to the human race and what a massive letting go a mama has to face.

The Menstruating Woman:

I met this woman, an amazing woman, who spoke wide open about menstruation. Her daughter had had her first bleed that day. For a whole year this amazing woman had realized her daughter was going through changes, well before her physical. So, she found this moonstone, which, to her, represented a connection to the moon and its cycles and our cycles. She carried this moonstone in her bag for a whole year in anticipation of the ultimate day to come, to give to her daughter, as a token, to respect her time of coming into womanhood. Today was that ultimate day.

This amazing woman told me of her own menstruating days when she worked on a biodynamic farm. She used a particularly absorbent moss as her menstruation pad! She would place her “bloody” moss beneath a special tree on this farm with her previous months collections.

One day, she was at an airport and she realized she had nowhere to put her moss. She walked through the car park trying to find a lovely tree to plant her moss under. She finally found it a home.

The Conscious Creative Woman:

This fabulous woman has never owned a car and has legs and buttocks to prove it! She recycles all her water: uses her shower and bath water to flush her toilet and feed her home-grown veges. She composts everything including other people's waste. Refuses to use aeroplanes, unless its terribly important. Plants trees every single year to reduce her own carbon debt plus an extra 1,000 trees for others. She participates as little as possible in packaging by buying bulk, organic and   local produce. Performs eco-raps to inform the masses. Only buys recycled clothing. She is constantly activating, making conversations on trains and with friends about eco-sustainable technology. She is our inspiration.

The Living It Woman

This youthful, open, generous woman came into the Kalamunda Markets bright and early and bee-lined for the apron pants because she knew her daughter would absolutely love them! Then she fell in love with a split skirt for herself, a bamboo cowl neck, a midi bag and a cap hat and looked stunning! This mid 60's woman didn't look a day over 58! She recently climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro to raise $10,000 for the black rhinos, is a survivor of breast cancer, loves her children in a way that made me cry, is close friends with her husband whom she's separated from and has found peace with his new lady friend. Soon she and her friend will travel to the border of Austria and Germany to see the Oberammergau Passion Play, which occurs only once every 10 years and then continue on to Budapest and other European countries, totally living it. What a beautiful place to be in a woman's life