How many men know this day? What the date is, every year? What the day stands for? Ask your man...does he know the date? Does he know what it is? Do you?
Women raise our babies from the first breath to the last in many cases. They stabilize families. They raise our sons and daughters. They, in particular, raise our sons to hopefully respect women, mothers, daughters, sisters. They are the stable rock of culture, wealth, and family values in nearly every society....this is the day we celebrate women, international women, and the global woman.
What is a global woman? She wants education, and she earns every bit of it, side by side, in place with her male counterparts in every classroom. In most cases she excels, though she never brags about it....
She sees and unites with other women, mothers, daughters, sisters from around the world. An unspoken bond so strong....
And she sees our men, fathers, just as strong an unspoken bond, husbands, brothers, friends also on their own pathways...some friendly, some not...but she never fails to respect humanity...however respectful or not they may be toward her...because her humility and virtue are what give birth to all of the joy and the pain....in every house, in every family....she knows....her mother knows...her sisters know...we, men, need to know this too...
A global woman is a major contributor. An enteepreneur, an artist, a major facilitator of causes, a politician, representative, a spokeswoman, a builder of companies, schools, institutes, major, credible institutions with humanity and civilization as causes, not chaos. She produces something on and for this planet Earth. She puts down a family, yes, if she is so lucky, and she plants trees, she plants companies, she plants leadership where she goes...
Every male may be expected as much, but may also be expected to have respect for womens' contributions at the highest level.
There are so many global examples....in America, we know some of the famous ones, the names, Mother Teresa, Eleanor Roosevelt, Amelia Earhart, Rose Kennedy, Barbara Bush, Jane Doe, are all prominent women, global, with American affection for their contributions as leaders, pioneers, creators, standing tall, many having gone beyond the borders of their birth to make contributions.... women... mothers and family....but there are millions more, in today's world, globally BILLIONS more who are women alone... and mothers, daughters raising our own daughters and sons, who inherit the earth, who write the next chapter of our plant's civilization....
This is what I see, as son, man, husband, father....of my heroines, on this day, and many more, most of the days and years of my life!
I cannot even begin to bring a portion of what would be a respectable tribute in scale, but to say that the scale is more than half the people of our planet...this day, this one day, we give you our torch of hope and appreciation...
Mothers, where we all started, daughters, whom we raise in such respect, wives whom we are priviledged to love, friends who we respect and love as colleagues....YOU are what turns this world around its axis....
This day is yours. This day is ours to respect and share with you It's like Mothers Day and then some, Wow! We love you!!! Thank you!!! You have brought us all gifts we cannot begin to even imagine....
We can never show our full respect. It will be for the ages to understand this respect. That is why we have International Womens Day, after all! It is for the planet and for the ages....
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