A Project for the Ladies...

Keeping in the spirit of National Women's History Month and International Women's Day (March 8th), I have a project for the women who read this blog. It is not complicated, but it will take some effort on your part. Celebrating women's lives and their achievements helps us to recognize those whose lives paved the way for our own liberty and freedom. (See my previous post, "The Measure of a Woman") This project is this: select the most influential woman you have ever known in your life. Put a collage of pictures, videos, write some essays, decorate it with flowers, and highlight in the project how HER example, HER model, HER existence, and HER womanhood had the greatest effect on your life's development. And it must be someone you know personally well (e.g., a teacher, a neighbor, a mentor, a long-time girl buddy). When you are done, give this created gift to her. Tell her why you made it, how she influenced your life, and what impact for the better she had on you in your own womanhood. We all have that 'one' heroine we think of often--who is yours? Please share with me (no full names, please) in your comments who she is and why. Let us build a tapestry of the unknown women in our lives who helped be who we are today. Without them, where would we be?