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COMING NOVEMBER 2010
COUNT DOWN TO SUBMISSION DEADLINE:
DEADLINE, DECEMBER 14, 2009
Introduction
There’s a reason why this fabulous gathering of women tonight is called, appropriately, “and the women gather.”
We are going to hear and see, taste and smell, and most important, feel what happens when we come together with a common purpose.
We have done it for centuries, and all over the world. We have come together to harvest the grains in the field with which we would sustain our families. We have come together to make the quilts that kept them warm. We have come together when we haven’t felt like it, but there was work to be done, miseries to be shared, and, mercifully, a good laugh to be had.
Tonight we will be reminded what really happens when the women gather:
When women gather their thoughts, we compose beautiful words as author Edwidge Danticat writes: “There is a place where women are buried in clothes the color of flames, where we drop coffee on the ground for those who went ahead, where the daughter is never fully a woman until her mother has passed on before her. There is a place where, if you listen closely in the night, you will hear your mother telling a story and at the end of the tale, she will ask you this question: “OU libere?” Are you free, my daughter?”
When we gather our strength we win seats in the Senate – or Wimbledon.
And when we gather our courage, as did a shy, mousy widow named Katherine Graham, we can drive dishonest presidents from the cloistered seat of power.
And when we gather enough time and energy, we take events such as this from dream to reality.
This was Lorna Owens’ idea. She saw women, friends – successful women – living lives without balance. Women who had “made it” and whose insecurities kept them from making even more of it – or taking that figurative leap off a cliff.
Lorna knows what that’s like. Lorna is a professional speaker who travels the country talking to corporations and groups of professional women. She encourages them to rise above mediocrity, to achieve their greatness.
Whether it is overcoming fear, stress or burnout, or simply changing your life, no one understands the process better than Lorna Owens. After all, she has reinvented herself from being an attorney to someone who is living her dreams. Lorna is on a fast rise to becoming a sought-after international speaker and author.
I’m going to let her tell more of her own story of transformation.
Lorna Owens.
—Nancy Ancrum, Editorial Board – Miami Herald
Chapter 1 The Beginning
It came to me after coming home late one night from an evening of mediation. I had to continue the journey of changing and reinventing myself but the assigned was going to be bigger, global. I felt scared. Then the voice said I needed to take my message for change and creating balance to professionals all over the world. But immediately, I needed to do a fireside chat for women called “and the women gather.”
Chapter 2 Writing Women into History
Chapter 3 Female Archetype- Nanny of The Maroon
Chapter 4 Women Access to Cash- The Power of the Purse
Chapter 5 Miseducation of the Professional Women
Chapter 6 Women and Social Media:The Future Belongs to Women
Chapter 7 Women Who Rock
Chapter 8 Let’s Talk. A Male Perspective
Chapter 9 Women on Health Facts v Myths
Chapter 10 Women and Beauty.Stop Calling Me Fat.
Chapter 11 Women in Politics
Chapter 12 Women Save The Earth
Chapter 13 Women and Relationship
Chapter 14 Women and Self Worthy
Chapter 15 Living Life like its Golden
Chapter 16 Saving The World’s Women-The Greatest Silence
Chapter 1 7 Women will Change the World
‘If you’re hungry, keep walking. If you are thirsty, keep walking. If you want a taste of freedom, keep walking. For us, women of Liberia, this award is a call that we will keep walking until peace, justice and the rights of women is not a dream, but is a thing of the present. Thank you very much.”
Leymah Gbowee
Chapter 18 Your Heart Song: Women and Spirituality
Chapter 19 To The Women in Haiti-We call your names
Chapter 20 We are the Ones. Call to action
“You have been telling the people that this is the Eleventh Hour, now you must go back and tell the people that this is the Hour. And there are things to be considered . . . Where are you living? Then he clasped his hands together, smiled, and said, “This could be a good time!” “There is a river flowing now very fast. It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid. They will try to hold on to the shore. They will feel they are torn apart and will suffer greatly. “Know the river has its destination. The elders say we must let go of the shore, push off into the middle of the river, keep our eyes open, and our heads above water. And I say, see who is in there with you and celebrate. At this time in history, we are to take nothing personally, Least of all ourselves. For the moment that we do, our spiritual growth and journey comes to a halt. “The time for the lone wolf is over. Gather yourselves! Banish the word struggle from you attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration. “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.” – attributed to an unnamed Hopi elder Hopi Nation Oraibi, Arizona |
OUR WORKING CHAPTERS. DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION DECEMBER 14, 2009. THANK YOU FOR JOINING THE MOVEMENT.
PUBLICATION DATE : NOVEMBER 1, 2010
A portion of the proceeds of each book sold goes to support these charities. 1. OUTREACH AFRICA 2 Episcopal Relief and Development
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