I would love to be able seek spiritual happiness by spending months in the Andes or weeks in Sedona or Montana or western Massachusetts or going on a retreat in some ancient site or a spending a winter alone in a hermit hut someplace. Most of my spiritual contemplation happens in the car while I am… Continue reading Celebrating Ourselves as Sacred Women While Driving a Teen to the Mall
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When Our Life’s Web is Unraveled by Violence, Goddess Mourns
My dream is that, at some time in the future, violence will be so rare that it would seem strange to write about it in a blog about the sacred feminine in everyday life. Unfortunately, though, for now it is all too much a part of daily life for many women, whether through experiencing the… Continue reading When Our Life’s Web is Unraveled by Violence, Goddess Mourns
Is There a “Women’s Language”?
Recently, the world lost the last speaker of a “women’s language” in China. This language was one created and spoken exclusively by women so that they could discuss their lives with one another. Is there also a “women’s language” here? While, obviously, women and men both speak English, the ways in which women use language can express qualities that some… Continue reading Is There a “Women’s Language”?
Goddess and Nothingness
Today it was announced that scientists have found a great big nothingness in the universe. It isn’t a black hole or something that is too dark to be seen, it is literally “nothing there.” While they are contemplating the scientific meaning, I am considering the creative and spiritual meaning. To me, the universe is the… Continue reading Goddess and Nothingness
Mirror, mirror…
I recently had brought to my mind a period of my life, in my 20s, when I lived in NYC and used to do things like wear floor-length opera capes to punk clubs. I’ve always thought of myself as an Emily Dickinson type — invisible, quiet, living through the written word. In those memories of… Continue reading Mirror, mirror…
Mary Webb
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
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 a Teapot 