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Dandelions? by Mary Rykov
Thank you, City of Toronto, for banning pesticides and enabling joyful seas of yellow to dot summer lawns and fields. I love dandelions because they symbolize everything that is tough, tender, supple, resilient. And prolific. Dandelions should be Toronto mascots,...
Eh-up, mind what am tellin’ yer! or Listen! Here’s something important! by Pam Galloway
Women talk! In many cultures across the world women nurture, take care of us at all stages of life and when they do, they connect with their charges or lighten their load by talking and singing. My day to day conversations these days are most often with the women who...
Reflections on Herstory by Nasreen Pejvack
From our earliest feminist sisters, such as Rosa Luxemburg, an anti-war activist, philosopher and economist, and Clara Zetkin who fought for women’s suffrage and to establish a day for us all, “International Women’s Day;” to the ones who wrestled over many decades to...
A Modern Fairy Tale Where the Victim Saves Her Own Life by Gail Benick
photo credit: Melanie Gordon Photography In her memoir, A Good Wife. Escaping the Life I Never Chose, Samra Zafar explores the roots of her abusive arranged marriage and her courageous breakaway from the confinement imposed on her. Samra Zafar, a woman of Pakistani...
The God-Word and Thomas Merton by Susan McCaslin (with a poem by J.S. Porter)
Photo credit: Mark Haddock My friend J.S. Porter and I recently published a multi-genre volume of reflections titled Superabundantly Alive: Thomas Merton’s Dance with the Feminine (Wood Lake, 2018).* We feel that Thomas Merton and other contemplatives of mystical...
Is There a Mystery to “Blind Obedience?” Nasreen Pejvack
The discipline of Psychology teaches us that Blind Obedience is a behaviour whereby people do as they are told without thinking for themselves on whether what they hear is true or whether they should obey orders. In combat, soldiers are trained to follow orders...