Something for Saturday from Christine Kent

This is a note from a friend of mine at Whole Woman Village web site. Christine Kent is a natural wonder and her web site is well worth looking at. It's for women looking for a peaceful and genuine way of life.

Dear Friend,

The days are getting longer and warmer here in New Mexico. I've planted a little garden in our plaza. It's not much relative to organic gardens I've had in the past, but every garden patch we nurture, no matter how small is its own reward.

I hope you have put in a garden where you live, even if it's just a collection of herb pots on a window sill.

For our many friends in the Southern Hemisphere who are hunkering down for your cold time, I hope you have preserved your summer's bounty to enjoy during the austral winter.

Women's health has so many dimensions: physical, mental, emotional, familial, relational, social, professional and spiritual. At Whole Woman, we have historically focused on the physical aspects of prolapse and posture. However, I feel strongly that "modern" society has profoundly disenfranchised women from many of these dimensions of our lives and we are the poorer for it.

This is why at our website, the Whole Woman Village, I am providing resources for women to help them reconnect with what I call the "living arts". Food gathering, preparation and preservation, the fiber arts (spinning, weaving and sewing) have traditionally anchored women to the seasons, the health of the earth and the well-being of the family.

I am not suggesting that "a woman's place is in the home" and that she should not pursue the fulfillment of her professional potential.

Quite the contrary.

What I am suggesting is that the advertising industry has convinced us that popping some factory made concoction that comes in a plastic container into the microwave leads to happy smiling families and women who can do it all.

The advertising industry is wrong.

Good, healthy food can be made quickly and with a minimum of effort when you know how.

Children will help in the kitchen if the expectation is set that food is a family activity.
We have been taught that something as simple as baking bread is difficult and complicated and if you do it at all, it requires a bread machine.

Nonsense.

It takes about 30 minutes of hands-on time to make enough fresh, whole grain bread to feed a family for a week.

As we speak, we at Whole Woman are working on a series of short videos on food that will be in Christine's Cottage in the Village on July 1st. We are also working on a very special feature video that will air in the Village members' theater on the same date. Stay tuned.

And remember, "Change the Posture, Change the Prolapse!"

As always...best wishes,

Christine Kent
Whole Woman Inc.