By Treesisters
“Women are like a mirror image of Mother Earth. We feel her pain. These heartaches that we feel are part of the compassion that women have, and we need to act on that compassion.” Mona Polacca.
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CLEAR ALL
Branchings of belief from the lovely common root of “holy” and “whole” in the interleaving of all things.
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