Here’s the discouraging note in all this. Many women, especially women in our age range, are still relatively silent. Silent perhaps because we’ve been ‘conditioned’ to silence. Many women have been silenced by years of abuse - verbal, sexual, physical. Others have learned silence because to speak was not the way to gain what they desired from the marketplace or in life.

Well, I’m hear to tell you - It’s TIME to ROAR! At least - to make a noise!

A ‘joyful noise’; a sweet courageous sound that echoes in the chambers of institutions, corporations, businesses, governments, arts and entertainment, media - where all the world’s power seems to abide.

We are women who have what it takes to be significant. To make positive change! To effect the rise of women from oppressive environments - regardless of where that oppression resides.

We don’t have to overturn the tables or pull on hipboots or even carry a big stick!

We don’t have to be pompous or arrogant, rude or dishonest in order to be a powerful force wherever we find ourselves and ‘plant our seed’.

But we do have to learn how to speak. To speak with power. With authority. With strength. With courage!

And we have to rise above fear of intimidation, lack of confidence, doubt or reprisal. We have to step up to the world’s podiums and give voice to the important messages we have to share. Messages we must share!

Some of you reading this may be thinking, “that’s all well and good for Linda to say”. Or “easier said than done”. And you’re right. It is easier said than done. And yet many of us (myself included) haven’t yet begun the ’said’ - let alone the ‘done’.

There’s power, strength, courage in numbers! All of us who are a part of AWP and those who continue to come in the future can take heart that together we can speak with one voice. And as we do, each individual voice gains.

Not that we all think alike or have the same life perspectives - but that we have a common interest in promoting what together we know women in mid-life need to hear; need to have; need to know and need to do!

I think over the next several weeks, I’ll explore some of the ways we can give voice to our voices - regardless of where we are now on life’s path.

For now . . . “We are Women, Let Us Roar!”

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