Remember as a child climbing a tree? Sitting high on a branch, bird-level high, embraced by the leaves, looking down at the earth below, we felt different. Not just removed from daily life but merged with something greater. Something wondrous, peaceful and inspiring. We were connected with Nature.

In times, before recorded history, before science and organized religion, menstruation was considered magic. How amazing for the females to bleed for days and live. How curious that the red flow occurred at nearly the same time every month. Much like thunder and lightning, a butterfly emerging from a chrysalis, a flock of birds flying in formation – monthly bleeding was a natural, marvelous mystery.