Halloween! Fall Recipes! Black & Indigenous Lives Matter! Parenting! Climate Crisis! Ongoing Pandemic! What else?
All month: Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Autism Awareness Month, World Blindness Awareness Month, World Menopause Month
October 1 – World Vegetarian Day
October 2 – International Day of Non-Violence
October 3-9 – Mental Illness Awareness Week
October 4 – World Animal Day
October 5 – World Teacher’s Day & Astronomy Day
October 6 – New Moon & World Cerebral Palsy Day
October 10 – World Mental Health Day
October 10-16 – Earth Sciences Week
October 11 – International Day of the Girl, National Coming Out Day, National Indigenous Peoples Day (United States), Columbus Day & Canadian Thanksgiving
October 20 – Full Hunter’s Moon
October 31 – Halloween
Notable birthdays:
Mahatma Gandhi (October 2), John Lennon (October 9), Eleanor Roosevelt (October 11), Oscar Wilde (October 16), Picasso (October 25), Sylvia Plath (October 27), John Keats (October 31) Who else?
Any other holidays or birthdays or death-days or anniversaries of great events—go for it! And as always we would love to see more articles about genuine spirituality, eco-responsibility, permaculture, mindful parenting, of-benefit politics, anything timely/newsie that is a gateway to mindfulness, yoga with integrity, and equal rights beyond aggression.
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