...why should love stop at the border?

– Pablo Casals put that note in Odin's mailbox this morning along with a two other thoughts:

Is the worth of a woman to come from outdoing men at their own game?

[We need] a much deeper feminism to revalue what patriarchy has devalued, and to center society around the feminine powers that have been restored. Restored, first to visibility, and then to reverence....Through the eyes of an imbalanced patriarchy, matriarchy is invisible. Matriarchy is not patriarchy with women substituted into men’s patriarchal roles. It is not women exercising the kind of power that men have in patriarchy. Matriarchy enacts another kind of power entirely, one that the modern mind cannot easily recognize....The province of matriarchy is what. The province of patriarchy is how. What shall we do, that is in service to life, love, and beauty? How shall we do it? These questions merge and flow into each other. What becomes how, how becomes what. Such is the conjugation of matriarchy and patriarchy. – Charles Eisenstein

...consider the possibility that the cure for phallocracy—and thus the cure for the global ecocide that is now ravaging the planet—is to work to create a culture where women have at least 60% of the power in every field of human endeavor. – Rob Brezsney