Monday morning-- the day is dawning bright and cheery, in our mind's eye. Outside, October looms, rainy and chilly, but full of color.

Today is Carnival day, dear readers. We neglected our Carnival of the Capitalists, but we are in the Carnival of the Healing -- a truly marvelous place to be. We offer you a most outstanding post at Evelyn Rodriquez's Crossroads Dispatches. Evelyn is high on our list of women we admire.

She is intelligent, well-read, and writes with a flair not often seen in someone so young. There are many times Jane looks to Evelyn as a stellar representative of the up and coming youth of America. We cannot put her in a group (not Gen X or Gen Y or Echo Boomer), labels slide off of her like melting ice. She stands on her own, and her blog is among our favorite top 10. We feel the country is in good hands with women like Evelyn. The writing at Crossroads Dispatches is always insightful, thought-provoking, and personal.

We encourage you to visit the Carnival of Healing and reap your rewards. There is much about marketing to women online to see there -- if you know how to listen between the lines. We were especially touched by the post on FOG at Spirit Visions. Next week's Carnival of the Healing will be hosted there. We will be joining, will you? [we offer this picture as a spiritual pose -- because we feel that animals are spiritual creatures -- unencumbered by worries over paychecks, traffic, if they're bringing up the kids right, or how fat they're getting.]

We think there is lots to like about that.