International Womens Day, Every Day
First published in 2018
International Women’s Day is today…
I invite you to honor and celebrate all that is changing and rising to meet us!
Women’s Day is Every Day.
Below, I share an invocation, a living prayer, a powerful expression of who we are.
I also offer some important ideas about how Artist and Activist intersects, creates sacred space and lives in our everyday life.
Read through this post, to the end, and find something from my heart to yours about the human experience, healing and wholeness.
“We as women of all ages must understand our stories – our pains, our strengths and our possibilities.
As women we are connecting to deeply held dreams, our own and those of women throughout time.
We, as the change makers, healers, activists and artists of life in our own skin must be willing to initiate ourselves again and again, learning to dive deep into that which is hidden or harbored.
Women who are the daughters, mothers, sisters, lovers, friends must gather in safe places to tell the stories that are waiting to be told and re-storying the stories that are waiting to evolve, only then can we live into the life that is possible.
Gathering our stories honors healing and wholeness, and understanding the layers of our own truths moves us closer to trust. To engage healing in ones own life is to understand that we are never not broken and ever whole – both/and, not either or.
Trust that the ripple effect that comes from any internal shifts we make, will always extend in more directions than one can imagine. We who are willing to activate internally and then gather new knowledge forward, find the abilities, strengths and insights that have been underexpressed in our lives.
We cannot underestimate the impact of personal growth and expression as an agent of change.”
– Cat Caracelo
Originally written on March 8, 2018, and now in 2024 these words are more so!
Last night, as I connected to this coming day, its purpose and its promise. I also wondered if these words previously written would still express what I believe, how I live, what I love, how I serve.
They do!
I have asked myself in moments of questioning if my work, our work, the work we do together, matters in the face of what seems to be an unraveling time. Collective confusion expressed in unrest, aggression and despair.
I was called to question and open my awareness to the nature of my work and my desire to impact others in a positive and generative way, especially when things are complicated and challenged.
My questioning has brought me full circle back to Yes, then and now.
As a woman I have tremendous concern about what is happening in the world, realizing that changes that impact some of us positively, do not and will not reach all.
Today is another full circle moment so I share these words again and choose how and where I will participate.
I honor the many ways we each choose to be, see, love, express, give, share, speak, stand, pray, paint, map, march, mark, make, act, acknowledge and extend our reach to touch and impact one another.
I have added a few organizations below that have inspired me to give this year.
Please share your voice, heart and art to honor International Women’s Day and extend your reach in any way that feels aligned for you.
All of it matters.
All of us matter.
With love,
- World Central Kitchen – Global
- Kiva Microlending – Global
- Palestine Childrens Relief Fund – Gaza
- StrongMinds – Africa
- The Lilith Fund – Texas
- Girls Not Brides – Global
- The Loveland Foundation – United States