Our March dailydress calendar starts a celebration for Women's History Month ... watch this space

Feel free to download and print out this calendar for your personal use this month.

a bit of history behind Women's History Month:

Women’s History Month had its origins as a national celebration in 1981 when Congress passed Pub. L. 97-28 which authorized and requested the President to proclaim the week beginning March 7, 1982 as “Women’s History Week.” Throughout the next five years, Congress continued to pass joint resolutions designating a week in March as “Women’s History Week.” In 1987 after being petitioned by the National Women’s History Project, Congress passed Pub. L. 100-9 which designated the month of March 1987 as “Women’s History Month.” Between 1988 and 1994, Congress passed additional resolutions requesting and authorizing the President to proclaim March of each year as Women’s History Month. Since 1995, Presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama have issued a series of annual proclamations designating the month of March as “Women’s History Month.”

CLicK here to read to learn more:

https://womenshistorymonth.gov

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This year, dare to be AUTHENTIC!!

“We have to dare to be ourselves, 

however frightening or strange 

that self may prove to be.” 

May Sarton

I am currently reading May Sarton's 'Journal of a Solitude' and LOVING it!!

It is a wonderful winter read,

 I highly recommend it.

And to follow-up on my 

#ONEWORD365:

my word for 2018 is:

AUTHENTICITY

and in honor of my decision here is a coloring page for your enjoyment.

namaste, 

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Celebrating the wonders of snow ...

December Moon

Before going to bed

After a fall of snow
I look out on the field
Shining there in the moonlight
So calm, untouched and white
Snow silence fills my head
After I leave the window.

Hours later near dawn
When I look down again
The whole landscape has changed
The perfect surface gone
Criss-crossed and written on
Where the wild creatures ranged

While the moon rose and shone.

Why did my dog not bark?
Why did I hear no sound
There on the snow-locked ground
In the tumultuous dark?

How much can come, how much can go
When the December moon is bright,

What worlds of play we'll never know

Sleeping away the cold white night

After a fall of snow. 

May Sarton

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today, let us remember to slow down ....

as we physically experience the craziness of the start of the new school year and the end of summer, let us remember to slow down; remind ourselves of the slow circles of nature ...

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, 

everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, 

is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

May Sarton

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may this dress remind us of the wonders of winter . . . . (and there are some!)

'prints . . . ' #decemberdressseries

How beautiful the white field is in its blur of falling snow,

with the delicate black pencil strokes of 

trees and bushes seen through it! 

And, of course,the silence,

 the snow silence, 

becomes hypnotic if one stops to listen.  

  May Sarton 

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May this dress give us a different perspective about being by ourselves!!!

“Loneliness is the poverty of self; 

solitude is richness of self.”

May Sarton

(perfect quote for me as I head into a more hermit like mode,

embracing the gift of solitude :)

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may this dress bring you courage to embrace the new!!!

“It takes a lot of courage to release 

the familiar and seemingly secure, 

to embrace the new. 

But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. 

There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, 

for in movement there is life, 

and in change there is power.”

Alan Cohen

Always a good reminder, 

especially on those days (like today for me)

when one is feeling a bit shaky 

about their journey, their path. 

So for today,

 let's all embrace the new, 

the adventurous and the exciting!!

Let us find a place where we can enjoy the ride 

and be curious what is around the next bend!!

peace be with you!!

xxx

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