Halloween! Fall Recipes! Latinx Heritage Month! Black & Indigenous Lives Matter! Parenting! Climate Crisis! What else?
All month: Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Domestic Violence Awareness Month, World Blindness Awareness Month, World Menopause Month
October 1 – World Vegetarian Day
October 1-7 – Mental Illness Awareness Week
October 2 – International Day of Non-Violence
October 4 – World Animal Day
October 5 – World Teacher’s Day
October 8-14 – Earth Sciences Week
October 9 – Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Canadian Thanksgiving
October 10 – World Mental Health Day
October 11 – International Day of the Girl, National Coming Out Day
October 14 – New Moon
October 15 – Hispanic (Latinx) Heritage Month ends
October 18 – International Pronouns Day
October 28 – Full Hunter’s Moon
October 31 – Halloween
Notable birthdays:
Jimmy Carter, Julie Andrews (October 1), Mahatma Gandhi (October 2), John Lennon (October 9), Eleanor Roosevelt (October 11), E.E. Cummings (October 14), Oscar Wilde (October 16), Sylvia Plath (October 27) 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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