Mary Webb was a British writer in the early 20th century. She had a brief moment of fame in the 1920s when her novel, “Precious Bane,” became popular then another briefer moment more recently when it was made into a movie by the BBC. Most of her life, though, Mary Webb spent in rural England… Continue reading Mary Webb
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.
Ani Choying Dolma
Some months ago I was browsing in an art gallery featuring Tibetan art and I came across a CD titled “Dancing Dakinis” by Ani Choying Dolma. I bought it out of curiosity and was thus introduced to one of my favorite contemporary people and artists. Anu Choying Dolma is a Buddhist nun who uses her… Continue reading Ani Choying Dolma
The Art of Envisioning
Today I was thinking about how envisioning truly is an art, something that takes care, practice, and natural talent. By “envisioning,” I mean taking your highest ideals and imagining a future that embodies those ideals, that is better than the present we have now, that is relevant to real people’s needs, that is possible enough… Continue reading The Art of Envisioning
Goddess All Around Us
I have been photographing nature this summer and everywhere I look I seem to see Goddess. Here She is. All you have to do is look for her. These are “glacial potholes” from Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts. Notice that cauldronlike combination of strength and stability and receptivity and holding. Here is the never-ending cycle of death… Continue reading Goddess All Around Us
My Mother Flies to Heaven
Here’s another story of how women in my family found the Sacred within themselves. When my mother was in her 40s she took up flying and eventually earned a private pilot’s license. Though she went to church, flying alone was her spiritual practice. It was how she connected to her inner being and the Mother… Continue reading My Mother Flies to Heaven
Goddess in my grandmother’s beauty salon
I truly believe that the Sacred Feminine has been with us for as long as women have come together, even during times when no one spoke of Her or called Her by Her true name. Here is a story from my past that I think express how She has always been present. In a beauty parlor… Continue reading Goddess in my grandmother’s beauty salon
