Inherent Power of Women
Lead Photo Credit: Katrina Hubbard Our tenet this month discusses the innate abilities of women and the power we have in ourselves, our homes, and the world around us. While…
Currents April 2024
At Big Ocean Women we live and promote a Life Culture which is a broad and deep and powerful perspective to have. Life is something that we all have in…
An Opportunity to Learn and to Share
Big Ocean Women attends and presents at the United Nations CSW (Commission on the Status of Women). This two-week conference is always very informative, helping us to better understand the…
Planting and Nurturing New Beginnings
Last fall I moved to a new home. One of my first tasks was to plant daffodil bulbs outside my bedroom window. Why? Because the daffodil symbolizes rebirth and new…
A Life Culture of Love
I’ve had some personal encounters with life culture the past two months. Nothing says life culture like a new baby, and we welcomed a grandson, conceived by the science of…
By Degrees
Back when I was first married, my sweet husband suggested we go to the tennis courts and he would teach me to play tennis. I was excited at the idea…
On Gardens and Guardians and Nurturing Growth
I was at the U.N. the other day, which is not a sentence I ever expected I would say, although I have been pleasantly surprised throughout my life by getting…
Currents April 2023
Life is a beautiful thing. It connects us all as humanity. It is a precious gift that we hold dear and try not to take for granted. Though life has…
Hope and Possibility
There are some things in this world that just make my heart happy. I like to think that I am not being childish, but maybe it is childlike, which I…
Choose Life with your Livelihood
In the resource video for this month’s tenet of life culture, Alicia shares numerous ways everyday actions and choices can lead to life. This inspired me to make my own…
A Culture of Life When Life is at its End
(Lead photo credit: Erica Mace) For the last several months, I have followed the story of a sweet friend of mine who has had to face the impossible. Her young…
On a New Economy of Care
My phone rang last week. It was an unusual enough experience in this modern day and age as to be immediately either alarming or annoying, and I was half-way between…