In order to make articles and columns available to readers here, I am reprinting them as posts. This first appeared in Moondance, December, 2008. I have now lived fifty years on the one planet in the universe that we know has life on it. In that time, the sun has dawned and set 18,262 times;… Continue reading Celebrating Our Birthdays and Changing the World
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.
Diving Into Dark Blessings, Standing in the Light
In order to make articles and columns available to readers here, I am reprinting them as posts. This was first published in Mused: The Bella Online Literary Review, Fall, 2008. Once again, the time has come to celebrate the Autumnal Equinox when the day and the night are each exactly twelve hours long. On only… Continue reading Diving Into Dark Blessings, Standing in the Light
Once Upon Our Time
In order to make some of my columns and articles available to readers here, I am reprinting them as posts. This was first published in Moondance in July, 2009. Once upon our time, a woman lived in a room of twisted mirrors. Though she was courageous, strong, and wise, she saw a cowardly, weak, silly,… Continue reading Once Upon Our Time
The Art of the Falling Leaf
In order to make some of my columns and articles available to readers here, I am reprinting them as posts. This was first published in Moondance in September, 2009. Fall in New England is when nature’s beauty shifts to a deeper, starker, more mysterious artistry that is awe-inspiring. In spring and summer, everything works together… Continue reading The Art of the Falling Leaf
Making the World Our Winter Home
In order to make some of my columns and articles available to readers here, I am reprinting them as posts. This was first published in Moondance in December, 2009. During winter, home is the sun around which an ever-tightening orbit of my life revolves. As the first snow falls, I retreat into the cocooning sanctuary… Continue reading Making the World Our Winter Home
Do You See Your Face in the Mirror of the Sun?
In order that some of my older Moondance columns are available to readers here, I’m reprinting them as posts. This column was first published in Moondance, March, 2010 This time of year always makes me think of the day almost twenty years ago when I was wheeled into a community hospital during a blizzard to… Continue reading Do You See Your Face in the Mirror of the Sun?
Madeleine L’Engle: A Voice of Wisdom, Honesty, and Vision
I have decided to make Madeleine L’Engle my summer reading project. Usually I wait to write about an author in this blog till I have read a majority of her work to make sure that I am expressing her writing as accurately as I can. You may remember Madeleine L’Engle from A Wrinkle in Time,… Continue reading Madeleine L’Engle: A Voice of Wisdom, Honesty, and Vision
Hand to Hand Across Time
The older I get, the sparer my spiritual universe becomes, and the more I wonder if I would have felt more comfortable in a Paleolithic world. There is something essential– self-confidently spiritual, as star-bright and as earthy as a diamond–about the cave paintings and other artifacts our most ancient ancestors left behind. I especially love… Continue reading Hand to Hand Across Time
Enheduanna: Priestess, Author, Inspiration
This Mother’s Day, it is fitting that a blog honoring women’s creativity and spirituality celebrate Princess Enheduanna. She is the first person we know of to sign her literary work and, delightfully enough, her most cited poem is a hymn to the Goddess Inanna. Her poetry to Inanna is also considered to be the first… Continue reading Enheduanna: Priestess, Author, Inspiration
Yearning for the Ocean Mother at the Spring Equinox
Here in New England, the spring equinox frequently coincides with the flooding of our rivers and streams. The melting of giant piles of snow and torrential seasonal rains cause the rivers and streams to rise and basements are wet and roads close. This year, the flooding has been the worst I have ever seen in… Continue reading Yearning for the Ocean Mother at the Spring Equinox
