International Women’s Day 2025

Because I was raised in a border city, being Canadian rather than American was an early, clearly made distinction. This distinction did not suggest Canadian superiority, at least in my family, but pride in British and French traditions and geographic differences. Like a lot of Windsorites, I learned that while most of the US begins south of the Canadian border, in our part of the world the City of Detroit sits on our northern horizon, the American city’s spectacular display of light at night casting diamonds up and down the Detroit River separating our two countries. I don’t know why, but I liked this anomaly and learned to relate to most places through their north-south axis.

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As climate, social, and political crises escalate, one source of guidance becomes essential to our continued optimism and activism: a Numinous Story. Numinosity describes the direct experience of a spiritual dimension that is sparked by an apparently ordinary place, person, idea, song, or any work of art. A Numinous Story weaves its readers and listeners into a coherent whole that heals, temporarily, the brokenness pressing in on us when we are aware of more than our own small concerns. The more Numinous Stories we read and hear, the more optimistic, engaged, and committed to creating positive change we become.

Numinosity is not a universal experience. Some visitors to the Holy Wells of the world feel nothing remarkable and come away disappointed. Others find this holiness on a hike through a forest or in a photograph of a Redwood tree. Some feel this Grace in every bath and sip of water. Numinosity infuses ordinary life with the mystical dimension that makes all of life sacred and every place on this Earth a Homecoming.

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