I’ve begun to write a second novel titled “Persephone’s Bower.” Since it is written for all of you, I would like to share it with you as it’s written as well as have any of you who wish help me with it (and thank you for the idea, Clarissa!)! I will be posting drafts of… Continue reading Persephone’s Bower: Prologue
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.
Joanne Shenandoah: A Voice for Lifegivers and an Artist You Should Know About
Joanne Shenandoah, Ph.D., is a unique American voice who will inspire and strengthen your spirit while delighting your soul. She is a composer, singer, actress, and author who has recorded numerous CDs and is a Grammy Award winner as well as the winner of over 40 music awards, including 13 Native American Music awards. She… Continue reading Joanne Shenandoah: A Voice for Lifegivers and an Artist You Should Know About
Celebrate the Mystery of the Summer Solstice
Mystery is one of the Universe’s greatest gifts to us. Mystery reminds us that we are more than we can see and that endless adventures await us if we will only open ourselves up to the possibilities that come from living in universe with realms that are beyond what we perceive with our senses in… Continue reading Celebrate the Mystery of the Summer Solstice
A Mother’s Day Gift from the Garden of Dreams
Mary Sharrat has kindly posted a guest blog from me on her blog Viriditas. It is titled “A Mother’s Day Gift from the Garden of Dreams” and you can read it by clicking here.
Celebrating the Everyday Joys of Beltane in the Suburbs
It seemed as if everyone in the small suburban town where I live was celebrating Beltane early this past weekend. Most of them had likely never heard of Beltane, but I saw people enthusiastically raking lawns, planting pansies in flowerpots, buying mulch and peat, bringing babies to restaurants to run on the floor with no… Continue reading Celebrating the Everyday Joys of Beltane in the Suburbs
Make Me a Pond Lily
As spring finally comes to the Northern Hemisphere, here is a poem about pond lilies to gently bring you into line with the warm weather Earth. Make Me a Pond Lily Ever the eye in the center of the universe The lily in the pond opens, one of millions of Ordinary blooms… Continue reading Make Me a Pond Lily
Celebrate Yourself on Wives’ Feast Day
February 1 or 2 is the date of many holidays – Imbolc, Candlemas, and Oya’s Feast Day, among others – but one that I especially love is “Wives’ Feast Day,” celebrated in Ireland and Northern England. Wives’ Feast Day is, as I understand it, a day for women to gather amongst themselves and enjoy food… Continue reading Celebrate Yourself on Wives’ Feast Day
Isis Makes the World Whole for the Solstice
Behold, mighty Isis of ancient Egypt soars over the earth, her shining wings softly beating the air, her hair shorn and her robe in tatters, gathering the pieces of her beloved murdered Osiris. She spoke magical words over Osiris’s body and he was made whole and alive. Together they conceived the god Horus who is… Continue reading Isis Makes the World Whole for the Solstice
Giving Christmas a Second Look
For me, Christmas has become mostly a holiday I celebrate with family because they do and then I go off and mark the Solstice with my women friends in an evening of stories, songs, dances and pondering the Return of the Light. However, maybe I was wrong to push Christmas away so quickly. Maybe I… Continue reading Giving Christmas a Second Look
Three Gifts: A Solstice Story
Thanks so much to Mary Sharratt, author of Illuminations about Hildegard of Bingen, among other wonderful books, for posting a piece I wrote about the Solstice on her website. To read it, click here.
