Dear Friends,

Thanks for opening this up! I am so grateful you’re taking a few minutes to have an online cuddle with me. Every note I receive from you warms my heart, especially in these strange, tender times.

How are you?

Today is International Women’s Day, and I’ll soon be marching with my daughter and others who support women worldwide and the balance of human rights to always thrive. While many are newly worried about raising their voices for one and all, I will continue to walk my talk. Honesty and integrity are in my contract here, as is compassionate service. 

What have you agreed to as a sacred human being with a gift? Have you made vows to be generous with your love or singular in your life?  Even though this day has been celebrated since 1911, and it may feel peaceful and calm right where you are, in many parts of the world, the impetus to gather has never been more necessary for the focus on the wellbeing of women. 

If you feel good where you are, this calm could be the balm for others going through contrast elsewhere. This isn’t a call to gaslight nor deny others’ experiences, but to be a witness and offer an embrace of love. A true gift of love isn’t just “pushing the feeling” but being in the flow of seeing and being seen in the truth of the moment and the truth of the soul. How do these truths marry? Again, no push. Just flow and encouragement to live with greater love.

My prayers have long been, “How may my hands serve for the best and highest good of one and all?” And when I listen, the answer is emphatically NOT hiding my light under any bushel but sharing Source’s clear and expansive love and inviting everyone to join.

If you feel overwhelmed by the world or any request to help others, I encourage you to slip off your shoes and drop your shield and ground. Take deep breaths with me or others you trust as we dive into the myriad possibilities that present when taking concerns or anxiety for a walk and transforming it by being in service to the greater good. What might that look like for you? I’ve found service through action is yet another way to feel better.

Yesterday, on our Instagram and Facebook story, we remixed images of women worldwide rising in solidarity for women’s rights. Today, I began writing to each woman who reshared this video, and even as I write now, my eyes are full of our collective tears. I heard the whereabouts and stories of the women writing back, each equally inspired by the images we are sharing. In the last hour alone, I have received notes from women in Cyprus, Senegal, Greece, Brazil, Brisbane, Israel, Arizona, and New York. Our glorious circle of heart via the internet! Nearly half a million people have viewed this video for good reason. When we share women standing up for our human rights, we are all uplifted.

Some women wrote sharing they feel great about where women are held and respected in their community or country. Some are decidedly not. As a daughter/mother/sister/auntie/friend, and grandmother, I will forever rise for all women (and those who love them) to be safe, healthy, free, and have bodily autonomy for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. These may be fundamental rights we have long taken for granted in our country, but friends, just like your home, maintenance for the integrity of one’s structure must be ongoing. In America, we are facing a crisis the likes of which we have never seen in our country, where basic rights are suddenly at risk. What a wake-up call! How is your heart beating to hear of this today?

Are you feeling uplifted? Heartened? Are you feeling outraged or refocused on the tasks at hand? Does this draw you up or coax forward your purpose to protect, nurture, or make new? We are close to spring. Do you feel the tug of the tides? Loving reminder–this is not the time to hide your light under any bushel, but to remember who you are, how you uphold truth and the rights for all to thrive with the freedom to choose how you pray or don’t pray, what you say or sing, what languages of love you speak or whisper, and how we gather in circles of harmony, unity, and peace for the wellbeing of the collective of our sacred and secular selves.

In our Quanta Circles, we constantly speak of spiritual athleticism and what that means—how one may more keenly focus, designate time within one’s week, and make a concerted effort to till our soil and grow. Moreover, it’s thrilling to feel the gorgeous, sunny expansiveness and support of our beautiful, constantly evolving community, even in these stormy times. We are uplifted and cheered each rotation to be the full expression of the divine emanations that we are, warts and all. 

While I did not expect to be in California this month, circumstances in our world are keeping me here for a bit longer. If you’d like to join us for our latest Quanta Circle this coming week, you’d be warmly welcomed.

Until then, walk in the sunshine and dance in the rain. Ski in the snow, skate on the ice. Celebrate women wherever you are.

If you can’t walk or march today, read about the women pioneers in the sciences, the arts, and engineering. Read poetry, prose, or inspirational memoirs about female authors, or watch a film of brave women who have uplifted society spiritually, emotionally, or physically. Write a love-you letter or a power-to-the-women postcard to the women in the world doing heavy lifting politically, socially, or environmentally.

Feed an elder woman in your community with food or time, or help a mama who is exhausted and could use a little support or a shoulder to cry on. Many women are struggling even more than you may be right now, so please do what you can and love bigger today.

We do this together. We are better when we do this work together. Many hands make light work. What happens when many hearts come together for good? I look forward to hearing all your heartiest replies and inspiration from you again soon.

Until the very next time…