Women

Happy International Women’s Day! Yesterday after a swim near La Playa Las Brujas (Witches Beach), I ambled around an older part of Mazatlán. Women sold me eggs and pomegranates, cut a length of yolk yellow fabric, and served me tacos carne asada.

Women directed me to the ocean, a bakery, and bed sheets. I chatted with an optician, printer, and seamstress, all patiently trying to understand what I wanted (contact lenses, boat cards, a skirt).

Some smiled, some didn’t, most were gracious. Joan Osborne sings, “What if god was one of us?” I believe this to be true, but I don’t always remember. When I turned a city corner and my eyes caught on this mural, I thought, Yes. Yes yes yes. We are glorious, we are Divine, we are phenomenal, whether we know it or not.

Let’s Know it. Right now, this minute. Look at the woman in the mirror, or the woman on the bus or in line behind you — Goddesses all.