International Women's Day

I would've missed this date were it not for the Indie's front page today, but warm regards to my female friends, family and sisters. To these I send a recommendation for Atwood's latest treasure, the Penelopiad, and as further warning PJ Harvey's 'Dry' Plants & Rags , also evoking the swans in nettle vests from Hans Christian Andersonen.

It's different for girls, who're born with a bellyful of ova developing through the medium of the ovaries that their own mothers' were born with. X chromosomes and mitochondria are passing down in embedded embryological matrilineal lineage. Thus, I move to collapse and subsume Valentine's, Mother's and Daughter's Days within one all-embracing celebration.