I’ve always heard that, traditionally, winter is a time of darkness that is perfect for hibernating in our caves, real or envisioned, until spring comes and life can begin again. Until the Solstice on December 21, this seems to be true enough. We awake in darkness and it comes back far too early in the… Continue reading Winter’s Kind and Fierce Light
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.
Louisa May Alcott: Her Gift to Women of All Ages
“Christmas won’t be Christmas without any presents,” grumbled Jo, lying on the rug. And so begins Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. You most likely read this book as a girl and probably have a copy given to you some Christmas or Hanukkah decades ago in an attic somewhere. Today is Christmas and I just… Continue reading Louisa May Alcott: Her Gift to Women of All Ages
Kissing Your Hand to the Moon
Our troubled economic times have come to my house. We weren’t really too surprised, and with half a million people laid off last month in the US, we are certainly not alone. As I frequently do when I am troubled, I went out to look at the moon, to rise above the place of my… Continue reading Kissing Your Hand to the Moon
Women Leaders: It’s Not Who You Are, But How You Love
Everyday women are naturally leaders in almost all that we do. Whether we are the person in the office to whom everyone comes to fix problems, or the organizer of our families’ lives, or the quiet voice in our group or organization who comes up with the way out of a dilemma, so often it… Continue reading Women Leaders: It’s Not Who You Are, But How You Love
Halloween: A Day to Remember Forgotten Women
Whether you celebrate Halloween, Samhain, All Saints Day or the Day of the Dead, this coming weekend is a time when we acknowledge the presence of wraiths of those who have gone before us. For many of us, the day has become another holiday for parties and decorations, while the importance of remembering those who… Continue reading Halloween: A Day to Remember Forgotten Women
The Mystery of the Leaves
My house sits on about an eighth of an acre that is home to a grove of gigantic, old trees who make a canopy of grace and wisdom over my house. When I walk under their branches on my way to my door, I am transported from the worries of work and the outside world… Continue reading The Mystery of the Leaves
The Wild Is Where You Find It
At the end of my day today, I was blessed by the sight of a fox, magnificent in her wildness and independence, who loped across my office parking lot. She looked at me as if she had come out into civilization just for me, and then continued on into the nearby woods. For most women… Continue reading The Wild Is Where You Find It
The Perfect Worlds of Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman worked hard to envision a better world for you to live in. Gilman lived and wrote most actively in the years surrounding the turn of the 20th century, penning economic treatises and fiction that explored her ideas that a more peaceful, just, happy world depended on the equality, especially economically, of women. … Continue reading The Perfect Worlds of Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Being with the Wasp’s Nest
It’s been quite awhile since I’ve written a blog post. Every year I take a month or so to stop writing, stop thinking, stop making lists of topics or outlining future articles, and just take in the world. I read what catches my eye, have long conversations with both loved ones and strangers, go to… Continue reading Being with the Wasp’s Nest
Listening to Our Lives, Making Our Myths
I sometimes wonder what it must have been like to live in a time when the stories of goddesses and heroines were new, when the women portrayed in them did the daily tasks, had the relationships, and faced the same issues as real life women. “Myths,” “fairy tales” and the like are, of course, meant… Continue reading Listening to Our Lives, Making Our Myths
