Celebrating 33 years of Independence

Slovenian Embassy, Washington D.C.

2nd edition of Finding Slovenia, 

published by Mladinska knjiga,

Ljubljana, Slovenia, June, 2024.

First published in 2009.

 

In remembrance of Lia, a light that stills shine bright
in the Archive of Past Treasures

May Lia's memory inspire us now, even as her indomitable spirit did in life.

How lucky we were to have known her.

We need to live for Lia - 

her life was cut too short.

With sadness and renewed commitment to achieving Lia's goals of global justice, 

Jacqui

 

 

                  For your viewing pleasure

Here's a cursory look at a place whose past has been vitally important to the world. 

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Gold, secular abbeys and imperial perils all come together in this last Hidden Women book as the author tracks her grandparents’ escape from Europe. Both sides of the ocean menaced those fleeing Europe for America at the turn of the 20^th century. Just as the treatment of women mirrors societal conditions, miners’ lives also may reflect whether justice is open to all or not.

Here's one reaction -

Heartfelt thanks for your fascinating book covering Mines, Temples and Parklands in Celtic Europe. The layout flowed so well enabling your readers to clearly see the connection between the ancient existential challenges of mining gold with creating art that reflected the values and philosophies imbedded in the Celtic culture.  The way you integrated your research with your family's history and legacy was seamless; the flow worked so well. Your photographs blended landscape, architecture, portraits and icons that reflected and illustrated your narrative so well. The book is both scholarly and personal: the sum far exceeds the parts.

What a joy to read and to own this book. This and your other books enhance our library being the gifts that keep giving.  The sum and substance of what I have read has enriched our travels in Europe opening my eyes to concepts and cultures which went unacknowledged for too long.

P.S. April 8, 2024
 

Announcing LEGACIES FROM A FREE CELTIC EUROPE

                            Fifth in the Hidden Women Series

                                by Jacqueline Widmar Stewart

Summary:   Legacies from a Free Celtic Europe, the fifth book in Jacqueline Widmar Stewart’s Hidden Womenseries, takes readers on a historical journey along ancient migration routes and through pre-Christian archaeological sites in the Celtic lands spanning Europe, back to times and places when women were honored as equals. Venerated as scientists, warriors and gateways to future generations, women have been targeted by attackers like imperial Rome exactly for that reason – because of their key importance to their domains.  

 

When imperial Rome invaded Celtic lands, many were enslaved, many were killed and some fled.  When under attack, families first try to hide their women and then often flee their homelands to protect them from brutal, dehumanizing dangers of male autocratic attackers. Today Ukraine and Iran face these same perils. 

 

What has happened in the author’s own family reads like a playbook for dictators’ takeovers, but it also shines like a beacon for beleaguered women.  Lost freedom and equality can be regained. 

 

Available in both paperback and hardcover

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www.amazon.de/Jacqueline-Widmar-Stewart/e/B001K917WU/ref

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When day equalled night, and light achieved harmony with the dark, the Equinox Connectathon brought together those who would extend those synergies throughout the year.  As part of the effort to achieve a lasting balance, I invite you to consider 8 steps toward regaining ancient truth.  https://youtu.be/-0i7lY0KBOk

 

May equality guide our future to an ancestral renaissance.

 

8 Steps toward Ancestral Equilibrium

1.     Write equal rights for women back into law.

2.     Use science and law to distinguish fact from fiction.

3.     Reinstate women as full owners of themselves and their possessions.

4.     Punish rapists instead of their victims.

5.     Identify and reinstate Celtic tributes as part of Europe’s cultural legacy.

6.     Tax entities that discriminate against women; use taxes for the public good.

7.     Require religion to compensate those it harms.

8.     Convert churches back into halls for festivity, free and open for all 

 

 

IN TRIBUTE TO THE WORLD'S BEST MOM 

Homage to you, now among other Druids. 
Your light sparkles ever truer.