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THE GREAT AWAKENING

Did you hear about "the awakening"? It's been in all the papers.

The message is in part: "no longer are women to be treated as serfs!"

Some refer to it as "the women's movement" - as if, prior to this time, they were "stuck" to the kitchen floor - but now are allowed to relocate themselves to the one in the bathroom..

What has escaped many folks - particularly we men - is that women no longer are limited to menstruation, conjugation, procreation, and subjugation

Obviously this new freedom no longer is limited to previous descripted polysyllabic terms, but reflects a combination of awakening and opportunity..

The new studies proclaim women now have a brain and are even free and encouraged to run for office. While one might conclude that is an oxymoron - most of us choose to look at it as progress.

This is not the first time that strong women have demonstrated their combined strength.

There are some out there who, to this day, claim that the "straw that broke the Irish males back" in sectional divided  Ireland - was the Irish mothers and wives who were simply tired of all of the dying and took a stand that resulted in resolution ( apparently a bipartisan effort - seldom seen)

Simply put, the new awakening is long overdue and may have been resuscitated in an effort to emphasize the truisms contained in  Maltuse's Theory on food supply and population

A decision was made by some/many to increase (and improve?)  the "food supply'' to compensate for the increased population in this country - both legal and illegal..

This satisfies this old blogger and resolves my age old curiosity as to why back in high school the women (no longer girls) - by group measurement - had the highest grades but were less likely to pursue higher education than the males. They were also limited post-high school to their choice of acceptable professions. That enigma thankfully has been reversed dramatically.

Our modern day suffrage is back and not unlike the old Hollywood headline post WWII - "Gable's back and Garson's got him"  - there is a hint that "possession" is now officially 9/10's  of the law for women as well as men...
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 WARNING: No longer are we men to use terms such as "the weaker sex" - the "distaff side" or my favorite "The little woman" (apologies to Louisa May Alcott).

We all know that most plants comes from a tiny seed.

Therefore, one can realistically posit that perhaps the women's movement started long ago, back when I first received the following anonymous piece written to a woman who was going through her own personal "awakening:

 " After a while, you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul.
   And you learn that love doesn't mean leaning and company doesn't mean security. And you
    begin to understand that kisses aren't contracts and presents aren't promises. And you begin to
    accept your defeats with your head held high and your eyes wide open, with the grace of a
    woman and not the grief of a child. You learn to build your roads on today, because
    tomorrow's ground is too uncertain and futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight.
    After a while you learn that sunshine burns if you get too much. So you plant your own
    garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
    And you learn that you really can ENDURE, that you really are STRONG. And that you really
    do  have WORTH and that you keep learning. With every goodbye - you LEARN.

Now we're all learning.