{Charlie Knows...}

{Be Here Now}

Spiritual teacher and author of "Be Here Now," Eckhart Tolle, shares the key to inner joy, the one thing you should know about guilt, and more essential advice! Or as fan Oprah Winfrey calls this list of some of his most famous quotes: "Eckhart Tolle's 13 Rules for Happiness." Here's one....read them all!

{Women Rule!}

Women in the World recently featured "Anna Wintour discusses women, politics, and a year of firsts for Vogue"...highlighting the Vogue editor's recent interview in the Wall Street Journal and Vogue's March 2017 "Women Rule!" cover. (All part of the magazine's 125th anniversary fete.)

Pop Sugar celebrates the cover celebrating "beauty in all forms" with: "Vogue's March Cover Is a Powerful Push in the Right Direction." And Fashionista adds: "Vogue Taps a Bevy of Diverse Supermodels for Its March Cover" ...quoting one of the models: "With all that's going on in the world, this covers makes such an important statement."

{Power without Love....}

Amen.

{Women on Women and the New Feminism}

Charlotte Hays, in the Independent Women's Forum ("all issues are women's issues"), asks: "Was the Women's March the New Face of Movement Feminism?" Her essay is an analysis of Amanda Hess' article, "How a Fractious Women's Movement Came to Lead the Left." Hays, who doesn't seem to be a fan of what the Women's March was truly about (and it was not about Donald Trump), writes:

"Amanda Hess has a long piece on the Women's March in the New York Times magazine. Hess of course is a big fan of the march, but her story has some background information that will be interesting to those of us who would not be caught dead in a pink pussy hat."

Whether we're "for" something or "against" something, we can always come from love. Otherwise, it's just a stand for fear and hate. Deeeeeep breaths, everyone!
Read on....

{If this is a day of love, then...}

{Love in Action}

Krista Tippett and her superb "On Being" radio program share the "extraordinary wisdom" of Congressman John Lewis. He offers "a rare look inside the civil rights leaders' spiritual confrontation with themselves—and their intricate art of 'love in action.'"

Speaking about those protest days of the 1960s, Congressman Lewis shares: "The movement created what I like to call a nonviolent revolution. It was love at its best. It's one of the highest forms of love. That you beat me, you arrest me, you take me to jail, you almost kill me, but in spite of that, I'm gonna still love you."

Sometimes we just need reminding about the intricacies—and full courage—of love!

{Love Trumps Hate}

"Now, THIS is a picture!" the Tweet said that accompanied this image.
Amen to that! xoxo

{What the Obamas Did Next}

"The Obama Foundation will be a living, working start-up for citizenship—an ongoing project for us to shape, together, what it means to be good citizens in the 21st century," shared the familiar voice on the video.

See Michelle and Barack Obama share a look into "what's next" for them as "private citizens" in this video on YouTube. Two inspired and inspiring "old souls" who will continue their open-hearted work!

{Speaking Truth to Power}

I love Maria Popova's blog "Brain Pickings"....I so appreciate this wonderful soul's range of research and reading it takes to compile such a vast library of old and new wisdom—chock full of heart!! (This is what the Internet was 'invented' for....to store and share the world's wisdom!)

Don't miss Maria's post, "The Writing of Silent Spring: Rachel Carson and the Culture-Shifting Courage to Speak Inconvenient Truth to Power." Rachel wrote in the 1960s:

It is, in the deepest sense, a privilege as well as a duty to have the opportunity to speak out—to many thousands of people—on something so important.

Rachel Carson—and Maria Popova—are indeed extraordinary women to tell our daughters about! Deep appreciation to them both.