Stories: Preserving a Life Culture
Big Ocean Women promote a life culture. We have an opportunity and duty to not only embrace life, but to do all in our power to preserve it. I’ve discovered…
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?Spring Forward~ ?
Spring beautiful spring! This time of year we are witnessing rebirth, new growth, and fresh energy all around us as the Earth and our lives come out of wintery slumber. It’s…
On Walking in the Rain
It were a foolish and ridiculous arrogance to esteem ourselves the most perfect thing in this Universe. —Michel De Montaigne. “In Wildness is the Preservation of the World.” —Henry David…
Mom and Home
The concept of environment is one that has always felt very concrete for me. Until recently, when I heard that word I would think of things like recycling, Earth Day,…
How We Value Life
The journey through existence is always teaching us lessons. If we are observant, we can learn so much just from our personal experiences and those of the people around us.…
On Life Culture and the Three Environments
Eve and I found a tiny bird egg while digging underneath a Blue Spruce this week.She carefully rolled the white egg over in her small grubby hands, tenderly inspecting each…
April 2019 Board Message
April Tenet: “We live and promote a life-culture within the womb, the home, and our ecological environment. As women, we have the wonderful inborn capacity to create and therefore protect…
A Young Single Woman’s take on Maternal Feminism
Our capacity to create and sustain human life is a tremendous power from which society can recognize and then begin to organize around.This framework challenges the current predominant social assumption…
A Mother’s Vow to her Down Syndrome Baby
It was Barbara’s first child, and no one can tell the story better than she. “The pregnancy was a normal one. I was staying with my parents in New York…
Creating a Life Culture in Your Community
The womb is the first environment every human experiences. When we were carried by our mothers, their bodies were our shelter. And when they breathed, they imparted to us the…
Carla Machado, A Messenger for Life
Carla Machado is the President of the World Organization of Prenatal Education Association in Brazil. Her organization carries the message throughout the world of the importance of the very beginning of…
Life Culture and Maternal Feminism
The U.N. Commission on the Status of Women had a record number of registrants this year at over 9000. Big Ocean represented a small drop in that number, but I…