[Viva] Fwd: As of Monday, a 100 years of liberation

[Margarite Sanchez]

This came to me from a friend here on the island who is part of the HIV peer
support group we have here. He wrote it and sent it out to the women he knew
to acknowledge and celebrate International Women's Day March 8th.
I forward it to you all with his permission.

margarite

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From: Robert Birch <farmboys at saltspring.com>
Date: Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:32 AM
Subject: As of Monday, a 100 years of liberation
To: "Undisclosed-Recipient:;"@mail2.imagen.ca


 *To the many profound women I am blessed to know,*
*on the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day*
-thank you for being yourselves, for over-coming the struggles
imposed on and over you, met with such tenacious power, grace and
determination.
Whether the violence of the world found you vulnerable or necessarily
guarded,
the ghost of sexism lurked around each advancing step you naturally took,
each of you sovereign in the dark,
a luminous example of mature wisdom in action, leaders, healers and guides
to so
many others, women, children and boys struggling to be men, compelling us to
be ourselves, too.
You inspire more from less. May these words hug you in the way you best
loved to be hugged,
holding with you the vision of each of you dancing wildly free, singing your
soul's praise to an ever-listening universe, your
tears spiralling between joy and grief, turn to cleansing storms before
resting...dreaming your special dream.
When you casually roll over to stretch your limbs may a warm morning dew
bathe you in gratitude, may you find yourselves
once again sitting beside your favourite fragranced flower. When you stand
again, stretching out and into the world again, my you be truly refreshed,
renewed and ready for another day. May you return as rich,
loamy and deserving as the most plant ready soil, possibility reaching
desire and becoming--

-that fire in your eyes begging new worlds to begin again and again.

With deep abiding love,

Robert x
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