A Long Time Coming

Oh My!!! She's Alive!!!! You all can jest; in fact, I took a very long break, and it has been a very busy time in my life! I will do all I can to keep you informed on issues. Some of my readers commented my texts were negative--however reporting on issues truthfully does involve not-so-pleasant things. Dr. Phil McGraw, in his "Life Strategies" says "We cannot change what we don't acknowledge." A surgeon cannot repair a broken body unless what is broken has been diagnosed. The world's problems cannot be resolved unless there is discussion to bring the problem to the surface, share it, brainstorm about it, and then work to resolve it. When this blog was first created, it was shaped solely as a woman-centered blog. Some say feminist; I say for all women. Not all women are feminists--nor should they be forced to become one. We have unique social, emotional, mental, physical, financial, and familial differences that separate us from men. We also have different expectations of us than those for men. We also have different needs, wants, desires, and aspirations in life. We want to celebrate our femaleness, our womanhood, our motherhoods, our daughterhoods, and our sisterhoods. We want to believe that we count in this male-dominated world, and hope one day for a world that is not so testosterone poisoned. I write this blog for our ancestral mothers, our own birth mothers, for our sisters, our daughters, our girlfriends, our nieces, our granddaughters, so that all of us worldwide may bond together in unity, friendship, community and love. How many times have you heard "We girls gotta stick together"? Countless. I promise to you my readers that I will not let up on issues; I will be as direct as I was before. I will not waver in separating truth from fiction, nor will I use this blog as a bashing of men. We need men--there are plenty who still make their gender proud. Women can discriminate against women; cause hurt and harm against other women too. Let's be creative too--let's begin working on a better world now--there has been too much bloodshed, war, violence, crime, poverty, homelessness, hunger, depression, loneliness, indifference, cruelty and hatred. Since these things are written here, let us begin to eradicate these things one and for all. No more Darfurs; No more Guantanamo prisons; no more torture; how about more monies being spent on affordable health care, affordable child care, education for young mothers, assistance for elder adults, and after-school children's programs. Let's work together to eliminate gang activity and its' related violence. Let's do make sure our mothers and children have food first to feed them; and let's begin to say we have a sick world that needs help. Are you ready to brainstorm?