Happy International Womens Day!

Happy International Womens day! Not a day to celebrate women who have the luxury of being a jet setter, but rather a day to celebrate the Economic, Social and Historical impact of Women and the womens movement. Cool huh! In 2038, Its sooo huge. There are ice cream socials, day long concerts, poetry readings and smiles everywhere!

Oh Yeah! So in the year 2007 3 high school Women get punished at school for using the word VAGINA at a high school VJ Day reading. For using a simple term like arm, hands, lips, penis, anus, leg, nose, foot. So Vagina is such a powerful word that it can not be said in public? Will the mountains fall down to the sea? Will the sky turn pink and pretty and cause us to notice it is there? Oh heavens, that's sunset and most people in 2007 are to busy looking at there cell phones to look up at the sky and appreciate its pink beauty as it turns to dusk.

So in contrast to our fearful times the word Vagina is celebrated not just as a body part name, but also as a profound expression of the beauty of life. It kind of caught me off gaurd when a couple of Women were talking, one explaining a new painting she was creating, the other listeneing intently. After hearing her artist friend explain the satisfaction she had recieved from this new creation, her friend excaimed "VAGINA!" which seemed a little silly to me, but it seemes to be an expression saved for suchh special events and much more powerful than the common (in our times) "dude".

So anyway, right on sisters. Right on Moms. Right on Patti Smith. Right on Margret Atwood. Right on Elizibeth Cotton, Anni DiFranco and Marylyn Magenity. Hope you look up at a beautiful pink sky, think of the power of creation, the power of love and the power of nuturing and think "Vagina!"