Today we celebrate women. We celebrate their minds. Their abilities to think and do. To create and develop. We celebrate the women who have cured and solved. The minds that have brought us ideas and technology, devices and medicines. Also the incredible brains that have thought beyond the here and now and gone so far as to the moon and back. We celebrate you. We cherish you. We thank you. 
   We also appreciate women’s bodies. We love what they can do. From bearing and feeding a child, to working and providing for a household. Women’s bodies are incredible. They are beautiful, sensual, resilient and functional. Some are round and some are soft. Some are angled, and have rough edges. Some are scarred and stretched and some are perfectly untouched on the outside but raw on the inside. All are beautiful. A woman’s body is her own from the day she is born until the day she leaves this Earth. It is her beautiful package to wrap and unwrap for whomever she chooses and that is a gift unto itself. We celebrate that gift. 

   We embrace their hearts. A woman’s love is unlike anything else in this World. When she loves, she loves hard. She loves fiercely. She might love wildly and passionately. It may occasionally come with anger. Some have laughter, and tenderness, compassion, kindness, silliness, friendship, sisterhood. A mother’s love. But with that love comes protection…and devotion. A sense of honor and commitment. Vows in what she took and who she is. Love for her man, or woman. Her family, her friends. 

   Today is International Women’s Day and we celebrate all women, everywhere doing all good things.