This is a poem I recently wrote for a friend’s 90th birthday honoring her for her decades of work quietly but effectively telling truths through stories and art for children and adults. By truth the Earth endures,said the ancient Irish Druids.And by untruth, Earth falls,in untold stories, mis-told stories,repressed stories, oppressed stories. Some Truth Tellerswield… Continue reading The Truth Tellers
Author: Carolyn Lee Boyd
Carolyn Lee Boyd has been writing about the sacred in everyday life and the wisdom of being in community for over 40 years. She has published fiction, essays, and poetry about feminism, women’s spirituality, and art in print and online periodicals including Women Artists News, SageWoman, Feminism and Religion, Return to Mago, Matrifocus, The Beltane Papers, We’ Moon, and more. Her work is seasoned by her decades-long human services career in which she got to know the life stories of a diversity of extraordinary “ordinary” women. She would love for you to visit her at her website, www.goddessinateapot.com, where you can read and download some of her previously published work as well as a little music.
Where the Rivers Meet
Rivers are the life-giving vessels of our planet. They bring water to nourish plants, animals, and birds, are a home for fish, algae, and water plants, provide travel and communication, and so much more. I have been blessed to live between two great rivers for more than 30 years now. From my home I can… Continue reading Where the Rivers Meet
Chaos, Order, and Creation
In the beginning was primordial chaos, a soup of the pure essence of reality, and from this arose a goddess who created order, and thus the universe and the world came into being. Myths and stories from all over the world tell similar truths about how our universe began, whether it is in the form… Continue reading Chaos, Order, and Creation
Winter Solstice with Our Ancestors
For many years I watched the dawn of the Winter Solstice over an 18th century cemetery that was on my way to work. No one else was around at that hour and I always felt a sense of awe seeing the mystery of the coming of the light over the granite reminders of death. It… Continue reading Winter Solstice with Our Ancestors
Songs to Aphrodite
I’d love to share a short piece of music I just made titled “Songs of Aphrodite.” You are welcome to just enjoy it, or if you would like an excruciatingly detailed explanation, including how it relates to Sappho and some music theory, read on! It is written in the Locrian mode, also known as the… Continue reading Songs to Aphrodite
The Earth Stars Journey
A few weeks ago I was tending to my garden and found that Earth stars had come to my yard. Earth stars are mushrooms that look like stars. The insides of the little ball are filled with spores and when it rains, they open up and scatter their offspring to their fates. The Blackfeet Nation… Continue reading The Earth Stars Journey
Music Is Poetry Beyond Words
And poetry is music beyond tones and rhythm. When I was in elementary school, I wanted to play the drums in the school band, but I was told “girls don’t play drums.” So, later I learned guitar, piano, and Appalachian dulcimer, but I didn’t play drums for many decades. In the meantime I had read… Continue reading Music Is Poetry Beyond Words
Words Which I Command Are Immortal
“Though only breath, words which I command are immortal,” wrote Sappho almost 3000 years ago, and since we are reading them all these millennia later, I would say that she was right. Words not only endure, however, but also transform, move our spirits forward, and fly us to realms and into universes and ways of… Continue reading Words Which I Command Are Immortal
Tanya Tagaq Sings with the Voice of Gaia
Tanya Tagaq sings with the voice of Gaia. She is an Inuit throat singer and much more with award-winning albums, including the recently released Animism. Her music isn’t sweet or pretty by mainstream musical standards. Her Gaia isn’t the tall, blonde, lithe, blossom-crowned Gaia that so often is the way Earth is depicted, but the… Continue reading Tanya Tagaq Sings with the Voice of Gaia
The Seven Summits Women: Together We Reach Higher
On December 23, 2014, four young Nepalese women of the Seven Summits Women Team reached the summit of Mt. Vinson Massif, the highest peak in Antarctica. This was the final climb in their goal to scale the highest mountains in each of the seven continents, a goal reached by only 350 people, including 51 women,… Continue reading The Seven Summits Women: Together We Reach Higher
