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October 2009 
National Women's History Month
Samme
Women's History Month
This blog entry is for both men and women. I would like to pay tribute to all women past and present by celebrating in March as the National Women's History Month. The public celebration of women's history in this country began in 1978 as "Women's History Week" in Sonoma County, California. The week including March 8, International Women's Day, was selected. In 1981, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Rep. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) co-sponsored a joint Congressional resolution proclaiming a national Women's History Week. In 1987, Congress expanded the celebration to a month, and March was declared Women's History Month. Wherever you may be, let us celebrate the many contributions of women in our society and the world.
(For information on the singer-songwriter in the last video, please click on Ann Reed below)
What can I learn from you
In your lifetime, in what you've been through
How'd you keep your head up and hold your pride
In an insane world how'd you keep on tryin'
One life can tell the tale
That if you make the effort, you can not fail
By your life you tell me it can be done
By your life's the courage to carry on
(Chorus):
Heroes
Appear like a friend
To clear a path or light the flame
As time goes by you find you depend
On your heroes to show you the way
What can I learn from you
That I must do the thing I think I can not do
That you do what's right by your heart and soul
It's the imperfections that make us whole
One life can tell the tale
And if you make the effort you can not fail
By your life you tell me it can be done
By your life's the courage to carry on
(chorus)
Sojourner Truth, Eleanor Roosevelt
Susan B. Anthony, Harriet Tubman
Annie Sullivan, Gertrude Stein
Coretta Scott King, Amelia Earhart
Louisa May Alcott, Billie Jean King
Elizabeth Blackwell, Rosa Parks
Corazon Aquino, Gloria Steinem
The following are my tribute to 4 women artists. I arranged the titles of their works to read like a poem and linked it to the picture or the image of that particular artwork.
The love embrace of the universe,
the earth, Myself, Diego and Senor Xolotl
.
( A Tribute to Frida Kahlo, Mexican Painter, 1907 - 1954 )
Iris..., A black iris
Petunia..., A Pack of Petunias.
.
( A Tribute to Georgia O'Keefe, American Painter, 1887 - 1986 )
Paul Claudel at thirty-seven years
.
( A Tribute to Camille Claudel, French Sculptor, 1864 - 1943 )
Lady bartender
Waitress nude
Teenager with a baseball bat
Two female impersonators in doorway
Screaming woman with blood on her hands
House of horror.
.
( A Tribute to Diane Arbus, American Photographer, 1923 - 1971 )
Imagine A Woman In Love With Herself
Imagine a woman who believes it is right and good she is a woman.
A woman who honors her experience and tells her stories.
Who refuses to carry the sins of others within her body and life.
Imagine a woman who trusts and respects herself.
A woman who listens to her needs and desires.
Who meets them with tenderness and grace.
Imagine a woman who acknowledges the past's influence on the present.
A woman who has walked through her past.
Who has healed into the present.
Imagine a woman who authors her own life.
A woman who exerts, initiates, and moves on her own behalf.
Who refuses to surrender except to her truest self and wisest voice.
Imagine a woman who names her own gods.
A woman who imagines the divine in her image and likeness.
Who designs a personal spirituality to inform her daily life.
Imagine a woman in love with her own body.
A woman who believes her body is enough, just as it is.
Who celebrates her body's rhythms and cycles as an exquisite resource.
Imagine a woman who honors the body of the Goddess in her changing body.
A woman who celebrates the accumulation of her years and her wisdom.
Who refuses to use her life-energy disguising the changes in her body and life.
Imagine a woman who values the women in her life.
A woman who sits in circles of women.
Who is reminded of the truth about herself when she forgets.
Imagine yourself as this woman.
By Patricia Lynn Reilly
I would love to share this lovely song and video from a legendary singer-songwriter who did not only imagine peace but gave a lovely tribute to women.
love to all the women and the men who love them,
Thank you,
Samme
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Good work on this one Samme. peace, maze
Thank you maze and happy birthday!
Samme, this is fantastic. What a lot of work went into this - pure love. Thank you,
t
Thank you Tigana, I enjoyed doing this so it feels easy for me. I want to say that one woman in history that fascinated me when I was a young reader was Florence Nightingale for her compassion and humanitarian causes.
How beautiful! Thank you Samme.
love, love and more love :~)
Annisa
Omz, you really put your heart and soul in to this one! What would we do without you and your selfless sharing? Hugs.
Thank you Annisa and ayla. It is my honor to share. : )