Halloween! Fall Recipes! Latinx Heritage Month! Politics! 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 2: International Day of Non-Violence, Rosh Hashanah begins, New Moon
October 3: National Poetry Day
October 4: World Animal Day
October 5: World Teacher’s Day
October 6-12: Mental Illness Awareness Week
October 10: World Mental Health Day
October 11: International Day of the Girl, National Coming Out Day, Yom Kippur begins
October 13-19: Earth Sciences Week
October 14: Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Canadian Thanksgiving, New Moon
October 15: Hispanic (Latinx) Heritage Month ends
October 17: Full Hunter’s Moon
October 19: International Pronouns Day
October 24: United Nations Day
October 31: Halloween, Diwali begins
Notable birthdays:
Jimmy Carter, Julie Andrews (October 1), Mahatma Gandhi (October 2), Neil deGrasse Tyson (October 5), John Lennon (October 9), Eleanor Roosevelt (October 11), E.E. Cummings (October 14), Oscar Wilde (October 16), Kamala Harris (October 20), Augusten Burroughs (October 23), Hillary Clinton (October 26), Sylvia Plath, Emily Post (October 27)
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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