It must be the year for women!

At least it seems that way to me as I wander through the mail in my inbox.  Yesterday, I got a NAWBO newsletter and found the following link: http://www.womensfestivals.org/

It’s two festivals celebrating women.  Granted they’re out west (California and Arizona), so they are  probably something that will peak the interest of our west coast women.  But the point I make is that there is a ground swell of events honoring and celebrating WOMEN!

I had the feeling as we rolled into ‘08 that this was OUR year!  The year for AWP and it’s newly forming face to face neighborhood networks - Affiliated Women in the MarketPlace(tm). 

More than that, I had the feeling it is a year for women in general; but especially women of our ‘vintage’.  Women traveling and transitioning into and through the 2nd half of the journey.

Well I wasn’t wrong!

Today I’m meeting with one of our earliest AWP members (her website can be found under the “AWP MarketPlace” at Sparks Promotions).  Yep, we’ve finally found the time to sit at our favorite Panera and get down to business - hers and ours!

It’s important to share this because when we finally connected after sometime, she told me her Quick Books consulting has just blown out the roof!  Her comment?  “This is our year!”

Dear ‘Sisters’, it is our  year!  It is the year that women with some wisdom and maturity (regardless of chrono-age) will start to see daylight in whatever it is that they are passionate about.  Whatever is they’re purpose.  I feel it in the bones and I’m beginning to see it take place in earthly time.

It’s been there all the time!  But it’s now time for it to show up for all practical purposes.

When I saw the “Women’s Festivals”, I knew it.  I knew this is the year to start celebrating our accomplishments - our successes!

I knew it’s the year to come together - in community  and communities - and work together to make the difference we all want.   For ourselves, our families, our home communities and for a world that longs to have the feminine touch of sensitivity, tenderness, courage and strength.

It’s what we bring to the world - wherever our world happens to be!

So, let’s begin a celebration!  Let’s come together - wherever we are - and rejoice in the gifts we bring, the companionship we share and the awesome power to make a difference that is a part of our ‘destiny DNA’.

If you’re so inclined and the travel budget permits, you might check out the Women’s Festivals.  Sounds like fun.

Oh, who knows?  We may have our own “festival of women” at some point in the year of “great things” and “new beginnings”.

Until that point arrives, let’s unwrap the package we are and let our gifts shine.  Now when I think of it, is it any wonder that this is our year?

Not in my book, it isn’t.

Have an awesome day with much love and rich blessings!

Linda