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Shared Wisdom: Women’s Strength

 

Be A Queen

 

(Part of the commencement address made by Oprah Winfrey to the graduates of all-female Spelman College in 1993.)

 

Be a queen.  Dare to be different.  Be a pioneer.  Be a leader.  Be the kind of woman who in the face of adversity will continue to embrace life and walk fearlessly toward your challenge.  Take it on!  Be a truth seeker and rule your domain, whatever it is – your home, your office, your family – with a loving heart.

Be a queen.  Be tender.  Continue to give . . . → Read More: Shared Wisdom: Women’s Strength

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Musings: Butterflies

 

On the medicine cards that accompany the book Medicine Cards: The Discovery Of Power Through The Ways Of Animals by Jamie Sams and David Carson, the writing under the illustration of the butterfly says: “You are changing – Emerge into your new state of being -  Honor your transformation”.

The opening lines in the chapter of the book dedicated to the butterfly read: “The power that the Butterfly brings to us is akin to the air.  It is the mind, and the ability to know the mind or to change it.  It is the art of transformation.”

There are . . . → Read More: Musings: Butterflies

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Poetry: The Urchin From Naples

 

My first visit to Naples, Italy took place in the summer of 1982, with consequent visits at Christmas in the same year and then at Easter of 1983.  I eventually travelled to live in Naples on 1 July 1983.  However, I had already “visited” Naples through a book that I read in early 1981.  The title of the book was Children of the Sun – The Slum Dwellers of Naples, and it was written by Morris West.

I was taking a year-long night school class at the time and was looking for an end-of-year project to present as my . . . → Read More: Poetry: The Urchin From Naples