Margaret M. Kirk

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Fran Pearlmutter

May 28, 2023

Happy 100, Fran!!

Barbed-wire fences, barracks, and makeshift offices were everywhere. This college campus had become home to 10,000 code breakers.

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Margaret Phelan

May 21, 2023

Patience and Renewal

Margaret was ferrying an aircraft cross country, somewhere between Arizona and California, when she noticed smoke in the cockpit. Never a good sign she thought.

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Earth Mother illustration

May 7, 2023

Mothers

This morning I am thinking of my beautiful mother. She was one of the kindest, sweetest beings ever created. She was always generous, thinking of others, and had a delightful sense of humor. I miss her every day.

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Illustration of woman with animals

May 1, 2023

Grace, Goodness, and Gratitude

Last week was a pause and cause for reflection. I can’t help but wonder if Spirit sent those days so that I would pause and reflect.

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Old woman with flowers in nature

April 30, 2023

Growing Wiser

A wonderful recording of an interview with Elissa Epel by Tammi Simonds at Sounds True awakened me even more to how stress has been held in my body, especially over the past year or more.

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Photo of young black woman

April 9, 2023

Hope and Renewal

Maybe if we all redouble our own attempts to right some wrongs, do what we can, and not get weighed down by what we can’t control, things will change. We all do this in our own ways and in our own time.

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Illustration of fairy holding a box

April 9, 2023

Shifting Paradigms

There was a peace that came with those white blankets that covered us, but also a time for me to just be.

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Cristal Cook podcast

April 2, 2023

“Remember the Ladies!”

Cristal Cook invited me early in March to share some women from They Persisted on her podcast.

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Natalie Trayling

March 31, 2023

Your Soil is Tilled, Make Magic!

I frequently refer to the work of Corina Luna Dea and her book, Archaeology for the Woman’s Soul. I admire her greatly. The following spoke to me. I hope it speaks to you.

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WASPs from Word War II

March 26, 2023

Mud Season, and Joy!

The Women Airforce Service Pilot (WASP) program began as an experiment, was surrounded by much controversy, but ended up as an unqualified success. These women quietly changed history.

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