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.
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