International Women's Day

Greetings Fellow Travelers,
Recognizing that this day and this month, Women's Herstory Month, has been set aside to do what we should do every day and all year round, I thought I would like to offer my gratitude to all you wonderful women.

Thank you for allowing us
Allowing me to share
To share life
Have the honor
Of participation in the creative process
That most sacred duty
Most vital responsibility
Of creating life itself
Thank you for receiving me
Being generous enough
Allowing us, men the joy
The joy of planting seeds
Thank you for the embrace
Of love and infinite wisdom
The genius that is love
The genius that is love
Thank you for the wisdom
The wisdom that is tenderness
The wisdom that is tenderness
With which you nourish and grow that seed
Guiding with deft hands
And technical skill
Skill with loving devotion
Working as only you can
Through a journey
Fraught with danger
Challenge and opportunity
Beyond any we can ever conceive
On this side of creation
Woman you make it happen
For nine months more
Bearing your burden as honor
With elegance and grace
Bearing your burden as honor
With elegance and grace
You woman facilitate the coming forth
Life in beautiful form
Life in beautiful form
Precious dreams of infinite tomorrows
Woman
Thank you for indulging us men
Permit us to claim ownership
Control over a sojourn
We men can't control
Would be wise to humbly appreciate
Thank you for rising to the challenge
Of motherhood, sisterhood
Attending to this task
Even when you are nourishing, caring for
The fruit
Even when of another tree
Just by being you
Thank you working women
For creating the space
For us all to plant our hopes and dreams
For all humanity to reap
To harvest the future
Thank you for teaching
For the enlightenment
To learn what work really is
And what life really means
Appreciate you woman