Tuesday, March 12, 2024

coloring anatomḗ

Mandalas are a fun an in-depth method of tracking personal cycles of growth and development. Throughout the ages the most admired and discussed symbol of divinity and art is the mandala.

a fully colored mandala

wonder | wander | world presents Mandala Cycles - a labor of love created to celebrate our alumni homecoming golden anniversary

original uncolored mandala on Behance

Mandala Cycles now has its own community page as well on Facebook. Created to provide support and collaboration among colorists of all ages. 

Thursday, March 7, 2024

embrace equity

Every year, March is designated Women’s History Month by presidential proclamation. Why this day needs a presidential proclamation is beyond our nation of women and all tribes of females. The month is set aside to honor women’s contributions in world history

March 8 is a global holiday - International Women's Day. It is a day when women are recognized for their achievements - across nations, divisions, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic or political. 

invest in women & benefit all

IWD Themes: 
2020"I am Generation Equality: Realizing Women's Rights"
2021Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world
2022Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow
2023DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality
2024Invest in Women: Accelerate Progress

Wednesday, February 28, 2024

400 years of women's frustrations

In conversation today we wondered and meandered over human dynamics and how they have come to be. Especially within families - how we perceive and are in turn perceived, what bonds and binds us, what stories are told, embellished, and retold? 

some women diarists featured in the new anthology

Sarah Gristwood's Secret Voices: A Year of Women’s Diaries, is a captivating anthology of women's dominant emotion in the past 400 years - a recurring theme in their journals written between 1599 and 2015. 

This book is a collection of extracts from women’s diaries, looking back over four centuries to discover how women’s experience has changed over the years and how it hasn’t.

Organized around the calendar year with several selections for each day - this book is a fascinating record of how women were thinking, feeling and reacting to historical events.

Stauney, Sadie, and Sarah discuss the book

The variety of entries, the process of women writing in diaries and how they were preserved, the importance of daily records, how it's changing in the digital age, and what Sarah hopes people will take away from her latest release.

This book is an enthralling retrospective of well-known diarists and more obscure ones. The rich mix of incredibly voices often echoing down the centuries sound eerily familiar today. 

wonder | wander | world thoroughly recommend this fun and fabulous read. Read it! Read it! Read it! 

Saturday, February 10, 2024

Lunar New Year 2024

This year 2024, we celebrate the lunar new year on February 9 and 10. It is the year of the Green Wood Dragon

Quinglong, god of the East, Green Dragon

All over the world Asians and many others greet each other “Congratulations and may you be prosperous.”

Gong Xi Fa Cai in Mandarin. Kung Hei Fat Choi, also spelled as Gong Hei Fat Choy in Cantonese. Kiong Hee Huat Tsai in Hokkien, spoken by most Filipino Chinese, like our grandparentsKiong Hi Huat Cai in Indonesian. Chuc Mung Nam Moi or Cung Hỉ Phát Tài in Vietnamese.

May we all have a prosperous New Year! 

Monday, January 29, 2024

star codes

Here at wonder | wonder | world we regularly share a week pick that inspires us or something special we recommend to our viewers. 

The thriving and insightful community of We'Moon is one of our regular favorites. These wise women are a constant and deep well filled to overflowing with artful illustrations and insightful ideas. 

2024 We'Moon Datebook

We are proud and content users of their annual datebook for years now. Aside from including a lunar calendar and astrological planner it is also a visionary art and writing by creative talented women from around the world. 

We recommend tuning into the weekly Star Codesbeautiful and insightful lunar news released every weekend. Daily predictions and planetary interpretations are paired with a lovely art feature. 

Thursday, January 18, 2024

radical truth

Anne Brontë, the last of the Brontë children, was born in Thornton, Yorkshire, England on 17 January 1820. Meek and more religious-minded than Charlotte or Emily, little is known about her life compared to the lives of her more popular sisters.

The Brontë sisters like many women writers at the time published their poems and novels under male pen names so that their work might be taken seriously in the male-dominated literary world of the 19th century: they were Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. ~ The Attagirls on Twitter

Anne Brontë: the radical sister overlooked by history

Anne's first novel was Agnes Grey (1847), based on her experience as a governess. It didn't get much attention, but her second novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), was an immediate success. She met with fierce criticism for her work despite its huge popularity.

Thursday, January 11, 2024

LitHub's 2024 film & tv preview

Aside from being book worms, here at wonder | wander | world we are great fans of movies and television as well. It is a joy to discover that LitHub, a favorite go-to - has now released their recommended list for 2024. 

Their 2024 literary film and TV preview features 53 shows and movies to be on watch. From what it looks like we are definitely in for a wild and fun ride.

Check them out here as posted on the LitHub site.

"Happy 2024—may it be better than 2023 2022 2021 2020 you expect. To that end, here are a selection of literary films and tv shows hitting screens large and small in the year to come. Might as well entertain ourselves while the world burns. (NB that premiere dates are subject to change, and plenty haven’t been announced yet, especially in the second half of the year.)"

Thank you Emily Temple for her succinct and delightful previews listed here - well done. We eagerly await their release. 

Dive in folks - for the best entertainment of the year!