BREAKING
India has launched at least three strikes against targets in Pakistani territory.
This has been confirmed by both governments.
A reminder: both India and Pakistan are nuclear powers.
Thank you for your resistance
Thank you.
Spring flowers from the garden 2025.
Staying focused and grounded.
Announcing the #IDM2025 theme: Midwives – Critical in Every Crisis
Midwives are trusted first responders within their communities, who can prepare health systems to be ready for any crisis.
đź”— Learn more: internationalmidwives.org/idm2025-them...
These women didn’t sit down, stay quiet, or ask for permission—they broke the rules and changed the world. Role models.
We should add Bishop Mariann Budde to the list.
For my Crones following along, here are some 'starter pack' links you might enjoy.
Keep your voices strong, and lift up the world!!
bsky.app/starter-pack...
Starter pack I love
Crones of anarchy
go.bsky.app/2MrAYuw
Their faith lets them worship power while they’re offended by mercy. It’s not Christianity they’re practicing.
@karisb.bsky.social you made it here!!! Yay!! đź’š
I’m glad to help!! Enjoy!!
This class is local - she’s the best
I have always loved this quote.
Lived by it to the beat of my ability.
Will continue to do so, to the best of my ability.
Christmas tree with white lights viewed from the outdoors frosty window
Winter solstice spiral of life in rainbow colors around a snowy forest
Took a break from social media for time with my family ~ so much enjoyed! My kids are ready for me to go back to work now. Blessed holiday season to those who celebrate anything during this cold time of year !
So glad you posted on FB so I could follow you over here. I don’t want to lose contact with folks I’ve come to realize think just like me.
Impression of a cylinder seal with two registers. On the top register are lions and people and on the bottom register is a woman in childbirth with a person at her feet. Above the supine woman is a crescent moon and star of Ishtar. Below the bed is a scorpion.
Professional midwives are known from the third millennium BCE onward in ancient Mesopotamia.
Here is an image from a cylinder seal showing maybe a midwife assisting a woman in childbirth from an early era (Early Dynastic or Old Akkadian). Below the birthing bed is a scorpion
Photo of a cuneiform tablet broken in the middle from the front and sides
Photo of a cuneiform tablet broken in the middle from the back and top
A legal case from almost 4,000 years ago includes witness testimony about the birth of a child to confirm his identity.
When Sin-nada, the mother, was in labour, her mother-in-law “brought here a certain midwife” to help cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/26...
Totally true !! đź’šđź’š
Black and white photo of a broken clay tablet, partially preserving 13 columns of text, and a second fragment with an irregular shape that preserves 8 columns of text
This list of Sumerian words, like a very ancient dictionary, dates to ~2300 BCE from the ancient city of Ebla.
Remarkably, one of the words listed is sha-zu, which means “midwife” (“one who knows the inside”).
A midwife in a 4,300-year-old clay tablet cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/24...
