Top 20 Strong-inspiring Films for Womyn
'I’m handing in this apron of silence, so
Kara Ghobhainn Smith is a Scottish-Canadian professor travelling and documenting her world through poetry. Follow her on @ghobhainn and at travellingprofessor.blogspot.com
Top 20 Strong-inspiring Films for Womyn
'I’m handing in this apron of silence, so
⛺'I assembled my acculturation tent as a migrant by securing it in 4 places:
1. Getting out of my comfort zone – embracing the new language, culture, and customs through assimilation & tremendous resilience.👁️ Look Below 👁️
For artist Leonard Jubenville, on the occasion of his life’s retrospective exhibition, ‘What Lies Beneath’, Thames Art Gallery (January, 2023).
Look below and see the glow, workings of a world rich and full.
Absorbed beneath the visible, sheen of this evolving floe
Genesis of new life, labouring dark and birthing light.
Look below and see the glow, workings of a world rich and full.
A river bank, a complex womb, forging, feeding
through the opaque gloom.
Look below and see the glow, workings of a world rich and full.
Beneath green pears, lie limpid brown; ripening fruit and Summer’s down.
Sun-dried laundry covers warm, moist soap scented of the foundry’s mint.
Look below and see the glow, workings of a world rich and full.
Fall leaves foster fresh new shoots - amaryllis, gladioli
and velvet suits.
Across the furrowed fields evolve, the living gestating resolve.
Look below and see the glow, workings of a world rich and full.
Seams left on a marble snowscape, guide us to our Winter’s feed.
As it is, beneath the surface, in all dark patches of our sphere –
everything important lies below the toiling gloss of rich and full.
Years ago, our Erieau neighbour, painter Carol Bowman described her process with water colours. She said:
‘It’s not the objects that are important; it’s the spaces in between that create the picture. You spend your time in the spaces.’
This has always stuck with me. So much of life is the space between.Three Leadership Lessons Learned from Boating the Oxford Canal 🛥️
1. The front always leads; but it is the stern, where you originate from, that will secure your ship to shore.
3. Work with the natural rhythms of the weather: Pause when it is stormy; Sail as much as you can when the energy of the sun is shining.
[Image: Chatham-Kent artist Tracy Root's painting, 'Solitude of Silence' 2021]
Mina:
My best friend's tears on my face. A dark sky; and fire after peat fire burning along the coast. Villagers came down to the bottom of their crofts to see the Metagama pass. No one spoke. I clutched the black bhìoball the Minister gave me until the imprint was raw.