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International Women's Day.  International Women's  Day.  International women's day.

 

how many times to say it…..International Women's Day

 

zillions.

 

i thought.  women.  women in my life.  women.  and i thought of my beloved Marjorie Burke Price…long dead now.  Dead.  she is dead.  But to me,  she lives,  strong and as she was when i needed her.  and how i still need her,  and go back to her…calling her to me…..needing her..

 

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how we would go.  on a weekend.  sometimes just over night.  But we would go…OUT  and camp.  Build a fire.  Talk.  make art.  burn art in that campfire.  Marjorie Burke Price.  Mother.  Woman.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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8 responses to “international women’s day”

  1. Linda Avatar
    Linda

    Mine was Margaret Wyley.. Dead too. She and I were like kindred spirits and she taught me so much. I think of her so much and wish I had more time with her.

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  2. grace Avatar
    grace

    wishing, but we don’t. so we look at it. That time we had…what
    was it?
    What do we Carry from it……….

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  3. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Mine was Frances Sydow … gone … but who’s strength and spirit live within me.

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  4. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    (((Grace))) Crow Woman Extraordinaire, clink of teacup to the computer screen with a toast to all women!

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  5. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    I was sitting with twenty or thirty others at the zendo, grateful as always just to be there sitting in long rows, some on chairs and some on mats and pillows, eyes cast down or closed, three strikes of the bowl and the golden silence, New York streets below but somehow just mist and suddenly though begins. All the women in my life, women who saved my life and didn’t know it, and those that knew it. A long list began and marched through my mind. I wanted to write them down. Let go of that, and then we walked and the names faded as our lines became rhythmic until the clapper sent us back to our places for another twenty minutes of sitting. I bowed to Kuan Yin and chatted with friends then left to walk home with a sure thought I would write all the names and it would be a long list. It began when i was two and now I’m seventy four so you can imaging. On arrival I cooked up some supper and washed dishes. Then I just couldn’t turn the computer on for the longest time. The list is still to be made and I wonder if I will make it. Tired now, I’m going to bed with all those women (it was always women) close by my heart.

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  6. saskia Avatar
    saskia

    it was also my parents’ wedding anniversary on the 8th March, they have been married 56 years now; still going strong
    there are a couple of women who have been, and some still are, important to me
    you Grace are one of them, I love you

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  7. Liz A Avatar
    Liz A

    I echo Saskia … it is the creative wisdom of kindred spirits I most value these days

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  8. ali Avatar
    ali

    My mother died on the 8th March. This year, for other reasons, the date passed by me.
    Through wonderful Spirit Cloth and Jude, and now especially this place where I feel at home, I have found such a joyful connection.
    Blessings Grace

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