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, International Coffee Day
October 2: International Day of Non-Violence, New Moon
October 2-4: Rosh Hashanah
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
October 14: Indigenous Peoples Day, Canadian Thanksgiving
October 15: Hispanic (Latinx) Heritage Month ends
October 16: International Pronouns Day
October 17: Full Hunter’s Moon
October 31: Halloween, Diwali
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), Augusten Burroughs (October 23), 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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