things of utmost grittiness

one grown girl's scrappy search for dirt her feet can touch so that her spirit may soar

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Alex’s Day of the Dead Sugar skull drawn yesterday during GG Visual Arts Tuesday! https://www.instagram.com/p/CGqUj1_pYYm/?igshid=61h5mdp6fau2

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Gritty Girls participate in Global Climate Strike 25.09 #fridaysforfuture #climatestrikeonline #digitalstrike #fightclimateinjustice https://www.instagram.com/p/CFkwZCfpUXM/?igshid=17dhbuvkqw9c8

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Calling all Gritty Girls to join us tomorrow for our Saturday Labs! https://grittygirl.com/saturday-labs/ GG Saturday Labs are for girls who want to powerfully express themselves, tell their stories, change the world! Saturday mornings offer Gritty Girl Performer’s Ensemble, a performance training in public speaking, on-camera acting, and physical theatre. Saturday afternoons offer the Gritty Girl Video Production Program, with production and content development workshops for GGTV, the Gritty Girl TV Channel. Here the girls collaborate to develop and produce uplifting news and feature stories on everything from pop culture to sports to community activism. This project allows for learning entrepreneurial and advocacy skills in addition to production and development. #grittygirl #performingarts #girlempowerment #virtualtheatre #onlineactingclasses https://www.instagram.com/p/CFkPG_UpvjF/?igshid=1ngz96dr08vsm

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#womentakethestage Check out this show if you haven’t done so already... ah-mazing music and inspiring words in honor of centennial! Just google women take the stage and enjoy... ! https://www.instagram.com/p/CFh8mwCp1Te/?igshid=1ie1daiyacq66

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Intuition

Intuition is the treasure of a woman's psyche. It is like a divining instrument and a crystal through which one can see uncanny interior vision. It is like a wise old woman who is with you always, who tells you exactly what the matter is, tells you exactly whether you need to go left or right. It is a form of The One Who Knows, old La Que Sabe', the wild woman.  

Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Women Who Run With the Wolves

Illustration and painting by Kristie Stephenson www.kristiestephenson.com

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Be Here Now

My baby and I are overstimulated by the wordly clamour of twitter. We prefer the tweet of the morning birds outside our balcony. And a dose of Rumi ain't bad neither. The message of the bluejays and the woodpeckers: BE HERE NOW. 

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Testing... testing

how do you work tumblr? talk to me. now THAT would be scary.

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"i want to suggest the women start a revolution."

DESMOND TUTU to Oprah during February 2005 'O' interview. He was speaking in reference to the incredible power of mercy and forgiveness he witnessed in the female survivors of the Rwanda genocide. Rwanda now has the highest number of female leaders of any country in the entire world. I wonder why... could it be that the men hacked each other to death?? Yeah... good lesson to be learned here I think.

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