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I just got notice of a new book that is coming out on September 1 by Jean Shinoda Bolen titled Urgent Message From Mother: Gather the Women, Save the World
Mother is Mother Earth, mother archetype, mother instinct, mother goddess, the sacred feminine and expresses the need for women as a gender to bring balance into the world . Men can also get and support this message. She is advocating a third wave of the women's movement as a grassroots one centered in circles of women.

The heart of the message of the book is in this poem called Untapped Source of Peace

Untappped source of peace,
The only real hope
Is to draw upon the collective wisdom of women.
Those with direct experience of the cost of war:
The life of child, grandchild, sibling, spouse.
The loss of limb or mind of someone near and dear,
The loss of laughter, the pervasiveness of fear,
The loss of hope for the future.

Untapped source of peace,
Those who have known domestic violence
Seen the effect of bullying on sons
Seen daughters become silent
Seen light go out in their eyes
Those who know
That when every child matters,
When none are hungry, abused, or discounted,
The world will become a kinder place
For us all.

Untapped source of peace,
Women with empathy
who live in a world apart:
Are safe, loved, and fortunate.
Yet can imagine
Being helpless, beaten and raped,
Then forced to bear a child
Conceived in violence.
Women who know in their hearts
That what happens to any woman
Anywhere
Could happen to them.

Untapped source of peace,
Women who see loved ones filled with vengeance and hate,
Hyper-vigilant, fear-ridden, or afraid to sleep
Because of the nightmares.
Husbands, brothers, sons and now daughters
Home from wars,
Bearing little resemblance to who they could have been
In a peaceful world.

Untapped source of peace
Women in circles,
Women connecting,
Women together
Bringing the sacred feminine,
Maternal instinct, sister archetype,
Mother power
Into the world.

Sorry this is so long..Just wanted to share

http://www.jeanbolen.com
http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?5WWC&1

Payenanny....DEEP.

However, I know this 'WOMAN'....I feel this 'WOMAN'........

that's what makes it DEEPER.....

you know what I am talking about.......

Thanks for the Insight....

and Heads Up for a New Book!

YOU GO GIRL!

BANDITA HERE....

PNanny....

I did click on the Petition link and am glad I did! I read the Petition over and did SIGN IT.....

I think WE WOMEN NEED TO SPEAK UP......

AND BE HEARD!

Come on y'all....fight the fight for our people! There needs to be this 'meeting of the minds.'

Share it with Your Sistas!

HD