Who Cooked the Last Supper?

This is the title of a must-read book by Rosalind Miles.  She asked the important question, where are all the women in our history?  If any of us stop to think about it, it's a really good question!

Filled with humor, good stories and interesting facts that open our perspective, I recommend all women should read this book.  While the past is gone, it does give us some idea of how we got here why things are the way they are.

Where I'll add my perspective that's a little different than hers is that as we examine what happened before, let's choose to own it so we can insure it won't happen again!

As you've heard me say before, you can't move forward until you own where you are now.  And for women in this world what we all need to own is that we've not taken responsibility for the mess we've created.

There is great power in owning the idea once and for all "I am not a victim."  When you own that single idea you've taken ALL your power back.

That's not to say everything in our lives and our world gets cleaned up instantly, but it's the first big drop in the bucket of a world filled with clean and pure Truth.

There have been so many women who have walked before us with courage, grace and integrity - claiming their truth so we could live ours.  Let's honor them by doing the same, one small step at at time.

Jill Elizabeth

Florence Nightengale or "The Hammer"

I heard a little more about Florence Nightengale this morning and so today she is the inspiration for this Sunday!  Most of us may? think about this first formal nurse as someone who must have been sweet and compliant as she dutifully took care of our sick soldiers.

Well, her real nickname was "The Hammer" because she was once told she couldn't have the medical supplies she needed to help the men so she literally took a hammer to the door and let herself in!

She was also instrumental in making the now very obvious link between hygiene and disease.  For two years she meticulously documented conditions of soldiers and was able to demonstrate more were dying of disease than bullets.  She also was able to demonstrate that when you keep things cleaned up (I know, duh?), she reduced the death rate by as much or more than 80% in the hospitals.

What was key here was she just "DID IT" and didn't really wait for permission.  So the question I'll toss back to you, what in your life are you waiting for permission to do or more importantly to be?

Consistency

It's time to begin again to see if this time I can be consistent with a blog.  Do I need to be?  No.  Do I want to be?  Yes.  But I've got a new mission and a new direction and so it's time to see if this will carry me forward into some level of consistency.

My intention is to write about things that are inspiring.  People, events or anything really that keeps me focused on who I want to be in this world.  Ghandi had it right, it's not about changing anything but who you are on the inside....the last place most of us really care to look, much less be honest about what we see.

So here's to me and the challenge of consistency!