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Lake Tomahawk on March 22, 2026, temperature 84 degrees F.

Sunday, March 8, 2026

International Women's Day

 How do you celebrate the efforts of half of the population? And the incredible history of womanhood to make life better for themselves and the whole world?

Party!

Remember!

Post a few wonderful photos accumulated through time of women!



In the Pagan tradition, the maiden, mother and crone.





Rebecca West, English journalist

by Susan Sedon Boulet

Energy cannot be destroyed, but it can be changed and transformed.

The great goddess from Çatal höyük, 6000 BC, sitting on a throne flanked by two felines. She is later known as Matar Kubileya, Kubaba or Cybele. Found at Çatal höyük, 45 kilometers south of modern Konya, Turkey


Ruth Bader Ginsburg painted by Joan Baez

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

RUTH BADER GINSBURG



Virginie Demont - Into the Water! 1898.

The efforts of thousands, through many lifetimes, to get equal voting rights.

Eco-feminist Joanna Macy

by Sally Hewett, U.K. Ectomy, 2017.


Greta Thunberg

Poster 1920







What happens to one happens to us all. We can starve together or feast together.

ROBIN WALL KIMMERER


20 comments:

  1. Happy Women's Day Barb! Great post and post!
    Have a great day and a happy week ahead.

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    1. I’m glad that women have voice now, but so far still to go!

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  2. ...Barbara, you collected some powerful images, I love Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Joan Baez!!!

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  3. Isn’t that a great portrait! Two fabulous leaders in their own ways.

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  4. A great International Women's Day post, thank you! I've been devoted to the Divine Feminine for nearly 40 years now and a Feminist for 55!

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    1. May your celebration of all the female energies be bright and joyful!

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  5. I must remember to wish Sue Happy International Women’s Day. You too. 😄👍😇😎

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    1. Thank you! I don’t think I know quite how to celebrate !

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  6. My deity, if indeed I have one, is definitely female.

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    1. Oh I like thinking that way...a divine feminine.

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  7. I've always thought of the Supreme being as female energy.

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    1. She who creates must have that quality, I'm thinking. Nurturing too.

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    1. Thanks to you for stopping to comment. Always welcome!

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  9. Thank you! Every image! I always wonder where the human race would be if one half had not suppressed and diminished the other half but encouraged and celebrated it instead.

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    1. Well, maybe the patriarchal devastation is about to come to it's natural end. We can hope anyway!

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  10. Great photos and pictures for today!

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