Wise Woman Within

06/03/2025

01/28/2022

“Aspire to be wise…”

"Women have another option. They can aspire to be wise, not merely nice; to be competent, not merely helpful; to be strong, not merely graceful; to be ambitious for themselves, not merely for themselves in relation to men and children. They can let themselves age naturally and without embarrassment, actively protesting and disobeying the conventions that stem from this society’s double standard about aging. Instead of being girls, girls as long as possible, who then age humiliatingly into middle-aged women, they can become women much earlier – and remain active adults, enjoying the long, erotic career of which women are capable, far longer. Women should allow their faces to show the lives they have lived. Women should tell the truth."
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Susan Sontag - The Double Standard of Aging
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Portrait of Susan Sontag by Annie Leibovitz

02/03/2021

Make the tough choices💕

Making the tough choices. I have realized that this is part of what it takes to design a life aligned with my purpose. This purpose is carefully crafted by what I have learned matters to me in this life combined with what I can not stand to see happening in a world I want my children to flourish in. Yes flourish, not just live or survive. This requires constant awareness, mindful relations and thoughtful co-creation to obtain. It requires a soul with stamina. Everyday I have to hold myself in check, analyze my intentions to keep them in alignment of how I choose to be in relationship with everything around me. This requires making the tough choices to think of the most beneficial way I may participate in our common-unity. Let's make the tough choices together for all of us.

02/01/2021

Sometimes BEing Human is hard...💕

Sometimes being Human feels hard. My heart hurts because I see people I love going through really hard times right now. No words help this kind of pain; the kind that is so deep it realigns your whole life. You feel like a different person after experiencing it or holding space for it, at least I know I do. What can we do in moments like these, when things are hard?? For me it helps to turn to my breathing and slow it down. It helps me to feel it come and go as it reminds me that the feeling is temporary, that it will pass and another feeling will replace it. Like the feeling of watching my children as they move through life, or the feeling of climbing a mountain and cresting to the most magnificent view, or the feeling of climbing into my nice cozy bed after a long day of creating my dreams. Remembering the constant change around me helps me in these harder moments of BEing Human.

12/23/2020

Dream big. If you can think it, it is possible.