WholeLife Mastery

Spice Up Your Life

Today is the sixth day of Kwanzaa and the principle for today is Kuumba, which is Swahili for creativity and means "To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it".  I couldn't let the day pass without doing something crafty. 

Open the Door

Text from Abraham-Hicks reads "Open the door and allow your natural Well-being to Flow. Everything that you have ever identified that you wanted is lined up right outside that door. And in the moment that you open the door, all things wanted flow to you."

Good and Perfect Gifts

Fish on a Bicycle

Photo printed on rubberstamped-acrylic paint background on deli paper -- a little trick I learned from Corinne Stubson.  I'm still working on the virtue of patience -- I smudged the inkjet ink on this page -- ARGH!! The text on the right reads:

“A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle”

(Irina Dunn, 1970).

This saying is often wrongly attributed to Gloria Steinem.  It was often repeated in the press after Steinem’s 2000 marriage at age 66 to South African-born business man David Bale, the 61 year-old father of actor Christian Bale.  In a letter to the editors of Time, Ms. Steinem–yes she kept her maiden name–corrected the misattribution.

In your note on my new and happy marital partnership with David Bale, you credit me with the witticism “A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.” In fact, Irina Dunn, a distinguished Australian educator, journalist and politician, coined the phrase back in 1970 when she was a student at the University of Sydney. She paraphrased the philosopher who said, "Man needs God like fish needs a bicycle." Dunn deserves credit for creating such a popular and durable spoof of the old idea that women need men more than vice versa (Source).