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Here are some wise words from Queens: Letting Go Takes Love To let go does not mean to stop caring,it means I can’t do it for someone else. To let go is not to cut myself off,it’s the realization I can’t control another. To let go is not to enable,but allow learning from natural consequences.…

What do you need to let go of? I asked this question to the many Queens who have joined the Facebook page of The Queen of My Self.* Here are some of their responses: Q. What have you have already released and what do you still need to part with — mentally, emotionally, physically and…

A thorough house cleaning, internal as well as external, is a fabulous way to delineate the purpose of our lives. Letting go of the inessential creates an elegant order to our existence. An orderly house always seems like the invitation to a fresh start, which is why so many cultures incorporate a thorough house scrubbing,…

On my birthday last year, a friend presented me with a gorgeous amber necklace that she had gotten in Russia twenty years ago before she immigrated to the United States. Though she felt that it did not suit her, she held on to it for two decades for sentimental reasons. When she gave it to…

Today is Nagasaki Day. Last Friday was Hiroshima Day. Sixty-five years ago, the United States dropping atomic bombs on these two Japanese cities killing upwards of 245, 000 people. The tragedy of these war bombs — and of all the subsequent bombs, large or small, meticulously manufactured or funkily homemade, that have fallen on soldier…

We are the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers. We have united as one. Ours is an alliance of prayer, education and healing for our Mother Earth, all Her inhabitants, all the children and for the next seven generations to come. The International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers brings together respected wise women elders from…

SAVING MOTHER EARTHby Mary Saracino A single day in April isn’t enoughto honor our Mother, save the planetthat is her body, restore her ocean womb,revitalize the atrophied arms and legsof her continents, remove the smogfrom her pristine lungs, replenish all that’sdepleted by the lust for profitover prosperity. Human hearts so greedyfor commerce they call deforestation…

 Wherever I travel there is always some sort of local environmental nightmare, be it chemical waste, medical waste, nuclear waste or garbage waste. And wherever I travel there is always a women, usually a woman of a certain age, who has organized her community and fought the good fight for environmental preservation and protection. These…

These Queenly Eco Sheros are amazing women, all. They  inspire me. I hope they inspire you, too: Wangari Maathai, Kenya (1940-) Environmentalist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai founded the Green Belt movement in Kenya In 1977, in response to the serious problems caused by deforestation: soil runoff, water pollution, difficulty finding firewood, lack…

I have always believed that if it is at all possible to save our planet Earth from the destruction that we have wreaked upon Her, that if it isn’t already too late, then it is we — women of a certain age — who are the ones who can and will do it. These dedicated…
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