International Women's Day

Last week I got to spend a day with my sisters in Coralus. This is a community of women that work together to support each other in our respective efforts for a better world. We gathered at Sulphur Point looking across to Mt. Maunganui (Mauao) hearing the stories of people, land and sea. It was a cold wind blowing, but we stood together and sheltered each other. We gave each other warmth and shared our hearts.

Today is International Women's Day, and last week reminded me of how important it is to find warm, safe places in our community, work and family lives. I wrote the following earlier today for an Instagram post and thought I'd share it here. It feels important.

Sheltering from a cold relentless wind on Great Mercury Island. This rock offered warmth and calm, creating its own micro climate. For International Women's Day, even when the wind blows cold, find your micro-climates. There's pockets of warm community, make sure you look for them, add to them, and shelter in them. It's a great place to get perspective, and the cold wind can't blow forever.

#iwd with love, Bex

ps. This photo is from a few years ago when we were sailing from Tauranga to Bay of Islands and needed to tuck into Great Mercury Island for 2 and a half days (on the way up to Great Barrier). As a family of four on a 28 foot sailboat, we’d had enough of hunkering down and decided to explore our shoreline and play in the 40 knot wind. The dinghy got blown downwind as we headed to shore. We discovered this massive rock formation. When we climbed into it, it was like a warm oven. What a find! To get back to our sailboat, we walked the dinghy up the shore a couple of hundred metres so that we had some time to angle across the bay as the wind blew us back down onto the boat. Ruffled by the wind, grateful for the shelter and better for the mission.

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Becky Cashman

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International Women's Day

#iwd with love, Bex

Becky Cashman

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