Dear GWP Community,

Spring is almost here, and if you are based in the northern hemisphere you may already be enjoying the effects of warmer weather and longer daylight hours. At our monthly meeting, we enjoyed this poem, by US Poet Laureate of 2022 Ada Limon.

If you are looking for ways to re-engage with GWP this spring, we’d invite you to subscribe to our daily Lenten calendar to receive our daily reflections. Each daily reflection encourages us to think about a luxury in our lives, and consider a proportionate contribution to support our projects for women around the world. 

Instructions for Not Giving Up
More than the fuchsia funnels breaking out
of the crabapple tree, more than the neighbor’s
almost obscene display of cherry limbs shoving
their cotton candy-colored blossoms to the slate
sky of Spring rains, it’s the greening of the trees
that really gets to me. When all the shock of white
and taffy, the world’s baubles and trinkets, leave
the pavement strewn with the confetti of aftermath,
the leaves come. Patient, plodding, a green skin
growing over whatever winter did to us, a return
to the strange idea of continuous living despite
the mess of us, the hurt, the empty. Fine then,
I’ll take it, the tree seems to say, a new slick leaf
unfurling like a fist to an open palm, I’ll take it all.

Another exciting upcoming opportunity is our annual Mother’s Day fundraiser. Consider a contribution to GWP in honor of a mother or other important woman in your life. The honoree will receive a card from Global Women’s Project notifying them that a gift was made by you in their honor. Details can be seen in the graphic below. Checks should be made out to GWP and mailed with addressee name(s) and information to Global Women’s Project c/o Karlene Tyler, 333 South Lakeside Dr. Unit 1, McPherson, KS 67460). Please mail all donations by May 1 if you would like the recipient to receive a card by Mother’s day. 

Best regards,

Sarah