Jupiter pays a visit

Last September 26 wonder | wander | women joined our fellow space lovers in greeting Jupiter. This is one of my favourite planets: the striped gas giant with its Great Red Spot captured my imagination as a child, and later I read Arthur C. Clarke's short story "A Meeting with Medusa", where an astronaut undertakes a lonely exploration of Jupiter.

Image from nasa.gov

United Nations Day 2022

United Nations Day in 2022 is on Thursday, October 24. The day encourages all the countries in the world to keep peace with one another and take steps to solve any issues in a peaceful way. All around the world, the need to nourish peace is an ever growing demand. 

NANSEN Award laureates join UN High Commissioner for Refugees

The themes for 2022 are:

• The future we want, the UN we need: Reaffirming our Collective Commitment to Multilateralism

• Our Planet, Our Future

• Traditions of Peace and Non-violence

• Potential in Diversity

bird on the water

On this blog wonder | wander | women never get tired of talking about the waterways of our beloved London and the wildlife that live there. We made several posts about the birds that thrive in the marshy areas of London canals and how it's a precarious balance of human and natural residents.

We found a totally unexpected species of bird living on the water this week! But first to set the scene: a visit to our favourite Word on the Water, the fantastical bookshop on a boat.

dimensional flow

Every year since 2013, the World Health Organization (WHO) has organized a global campaign for World Mental Health Day on October 10. The World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH) announced the theme for World Mental Health Day 2022 is ‘Make mental health for all a global priority”. 

Aphrodite/ Venus Urania, Queen of Heaven

A day for all races not just for Columbus and other colonizers to blast their way through nature and what is natural. The Columbian Exchange embodies both the best and the worst of environmental and health results of contact, as well as the cultural shifts produced and its exponential results. 

The gift that keeps on giving to this very day - in the best and worst ways possible - in all its increments in between.

Columbus' large scale colonization & exploitation project