revolution

“Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.” - Abbie Hoffman

This weekend, my mate and I drove up to a family wedding in northern ********. The drive was very scenic, with floods of trees waving by the window in swelling summer hills. Some cousins or another, whom I had never heard of, were to be wed in the same chapel as my mate's brother, who is an excellent Risk player and who will be a father in less than four weeks.

Having seen photos of the chapel from said previous wedding, I was excited to experience it first-hand, as its design is one of breath-taking genius. Rather than creating the enclosed, stuffy atmosphere that so many churches do, locking the congregation away from the very creation that they seek to worship, this chapel is a massive steel building that utilizes reflective glass as its walls. Awe-inspiring arches run down the length of this architectural wonder, repeating in pattern, blending in from the distance to create the illusion of a grand web. As the chapel is located in the forest, each glass wall reveals calming, natural scenery, with leaves brushing against its surface and sunlight liberally pooling in. Nothing is quite so calming to the soul as the unified presence of nature and the assuring protection from it.

That which transpired within the chapel, however, had no where near the same soothing effect on my temperament.

What do women need most?

There are endless opinions on just what it is women need the most in this world-- amongst feminists and in feminist theory there have been many answers given as to what this need might be.

What do you think it is? More confidence? Weapons? Their own country? Food? More love for their mothers? More love from their mothers? Or fathers? College education? A sense of completeness apart from lovers/family/children? A revolution or breakthrough in science, math or space travel? A womens martial art?

What is the common thing that womankind the world over needs?