honoring women and their friendships

“There are women who make things better...simply by showing up. There are women who make things happen. There are women who make their way. There are women who make a difference. And women who make us smile. There are women of wit and wisdom who- through strength and courage- make it through. There are women who change the world everyday... Women like you.” — Ashley Rice 

Friendship is about making the effort to show up in a relationship

Friendship is not about sending a representative

Friendship is doubling the joy of happy times

and diving the grief..it helps make life even better

Friendship is not about harping on the negative 

or harboring resentments from the past

Friendship is not jealousy over another's successes

Friendship is help and succor and strength and support

Female friendships are living, breathing, viable things 

they should be honored, cherished, and appreciated 

because they manage to survive despite and because of  

women are strength and love. women are compassion and understanding. women hold each other up, support each other through hard times, laugh together at the ironies of life and cry when life disappoints them.

women endure childbirth, double standards, rape, abuse, mistreatment and never give up or give in. we are all queens and we protect our kings and our children and our earth and our environment. we are mother nature and leaders of new beginnings and creators of new generations.

we aspire, create,  inspire, imagine, dream, believe, hope and never truly lose faith... and...we do it all with and through our friendships with one another.

i am proud to be a woman, to have women friendships, women family members, sisters and female mentors. we are women; we are succulent, wild, amazing women making forward strides everyday. i honor us all!!!!!!!!!