Mind and reality ....by Judeitakali
Mind and reality. A poetic letter.
Lipstick Power
I see cosmetic companies disposing off stocks of lip colors, because covid masks have taken away power of the lips.
But we are interacting online more than ever, and what does a person see? Your face and shoulders.
The designer outfit, killer heels and fancy handbag are conspicuous by their absence. When was the last time you used these much-coveted, expensive items?
If we are talking about the face, can lips be far behind?
Sounds a bit OTT (over the top) ! But these words were not spoken at birth. This is the experience of a woman culled over the years, that makes her espouse the cause. Red is for everybody, if coordinated properly. And all those who deride women wearing it, are the ones that envy the confidence of the woman.
I read and hear all the advocates of carefully constructed nude lips, and the gender-neutral advocates who want…
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Dr. Mala Bhandari
Dr. Mala Bhandari is the founder of Sadrag, a NGO to help women & children. Her area of research has been Women, Work and their Quality of Life. She has had a three years Post-Doctoral research experience in Gender and Development from University of Pune, Maharashtra.
Visit https://sadrag.org/ to find details of her work.
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Reena’s Xploration Challenge #181
Sacred Spaces ….by Indira
PROMPT #181
Sacred Spaces
Inside or outside
Long access to sacred space
short lived everywhere
Something or your own body
Bound to disturb or distract
Sacred Space
Sacred Space by Erlyn Olivia
(I)
early morning walks
fresh air opens up the soul –
sacred space haven
(II)
alone in this space
gone are the shrills of the world,
answers come to mind
Reena’s Exploration Challenge #181 – Sacred Space
#NaPoWriMo2021 – Day 19
Zoned for comfort
Zoned for Comfort….By Eugenia
vanishing truths
silent hush discovered as
cloaked tempests brew lies
the coming of the calm is
embraced in a sacred place
Reena’s Xploration Challenge#181
Sacred Spaces
-Eugi
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay
Reena’s Xploration Challenge #180
Milestone ….by Indira
PROMPT #180
So, here we go with our prompt word for this week
MILESTONE
life looked so insipid
until I realized
I have achieved a milestone
all along my life
love and affection
of all near and dear ones
what a fool I was
to overlook
what was so near me
and
searching for
distant accolades
Internet Dating
Internet dating …..by Jim Adams
Ever since social-distancing measures have removed the ease of meeting people from the equation, I have been thinking about finding a dating site, but I am not sure which one to choose. I am not interested in any of those hookup sites, as I am not looking for flings, I don’t want to date married women, and I am not really after casual sex, or sex with no strings attached. I just want to meet a normal person that lives in my area and have my own sacred space where I can chat with them. I would love to find a dating site where I don’t have to answer a bunch of questions, and I can just browse profiles. I don’t believe in soulmates, but I am certain that there is somebody out there that would be compatible for me.
The last time that I was involved in online dating…
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Finding Home
Finding Home …. by VJ Knutson
Do we have to be away
to find home?
Not the mortgaged
two cars in the driveway
double-income kind of dwelling
I’m talking peace
in the heart, comfort
in the soul, blessed home
I have felt Presence
in nature, witnessed Spirit
in a newborn’s eyes
beheld reverence in a dying
sister’s final breath – fleeting
glimpses, nothing solid
I seek an eternal sense
of belonging, of atonement
to radiate a knowing, holy calm
Don’t speak to me of books
or passages, or a brother
with the voice of God
The home I seek is
an inner sanctum
a whisper, a cry
a longing answered
only in moments of pure
simplicity, in stillness
this noise we create
this distancing, is only fear
and forgetting: products
of original separation
a projection of abandonment
remembering, experiencing
the numinous, the sacred other
brings me back home
and I am no longer lost.
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Why I think I’m a Feminist
Why I think I’m a feminist – a personal perspective on feminism
I am, without doubt, a feminist. I have subscribed to the belief in the social, economic and political equality of the sexes for almost as long as I can remember. My attitudes have been shaped by my upbringing, influenced by societal expectations and honed by life experience.
I was brought up to believe in equality and in women’s rights.
I grew up in the UK and as a child of the 70s and a young woman of the 80s, my generation’s older sisters had laid the foundations of feminism. Underpinned by new legislation in the 1970s, the Equal Pay Act and the Sex Discrimination Act, women were set on a more equal footing than ever before, but perhaps the biggest trigger for change was the widespread – and free – availability of the contraceptive pill in 1974, which…
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