Many years ago I published a poem titled “Hands Breaking Bread.” Imagine my surprise when I found that Holly Lavina had made a video of it that was on youtube! I love the video – her reading as well as the graphics bring out elements of the poem even I hadn’t experienced before. Her video… Continue reading Holly Lavina’s Video of Hands Baking Bread
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Chaos-to-Go: Life as a Holy Speck in an Infinite Messiness
First published in Moondance, March 21, 2011 When spring arrives in New England, every acre burgeons into chaos as millions of spores and microscopic one-celled wonders, plants, fungi, animals, and birds emerge from an icy sleep into manic activity. Every year I marvel at this emergence of boundless life for a week or two until… Continue reading Chaos-to-Go: Life as a Holy Speck in an Infinite Messiness
The Royal Wedding, Disco Balls, and The Goddess of the Land
You may have heard that there was a Royal Wedding at Westminster Abbey this week. Some polls showed that not even most people in Britain were that interested in it, but you wouldn’t have gotten that impression from the million people lining the street outside the Abbey or even from the Royal Wedding fervor in… Continue reading The Royal Wedding, Disco Balls, and The Goddess of the Land
Leaving Eggs in Ostara’s Forest
Every Spring Equinox, I join a circle of women who gather and celebrate the coming spring by telling the story of Ostara, a goddess from Europe from whose name the word “Easter” comes. Since elements of her story are part of the Easter tradition being observed today all over the world, I thought I would… Continue reading Leaving Eggs in Ostara’s Forest
Inviting Goddess to Your Tea Party
We all know how heavenly tea is, but even from ancient times it has had a mist of sacredness about it. And in all the years the teapot has symbolized the sacred in women’s everyday lives on this blog, I have never written about the close connection between goddesses and tea. So, as the… Continue reading Inviting Goddess to Your Tea Party
Spring Goddesses with Their Golden Apples of Hope
I tried, I really did. I so wanted to write a light and happy post for spring and went looking for sweet, floral, and effervescent goddesses to welcome in the season. But, it seems that every time I found a good candidate, she ended up having tragedy in her story. Of course, probably the best… Continue reading Spring Goddesses with Their Golden Apples of Hope
Merlin Stone: A Foremother of Women’s Spirituality
You may have heard that Merlin Stone died last month. The world, and my world, is a more enlightened, courageous, and spiritually rich place because she lived. She changed so many lives with her 1976 book When God Was a Woman, describing ancient Goddess religions and cultures and how we ended up where we are… Continue reading Merlin Stone: A Foremother of Women’s Spirituality
Apocalypse…Not So Much
It has been awhile since I have posted. The past year has been spent doing important but time-and-mind consuming day-to-day tasks. I wanted the first post in a few months to be humorous and uplifting. What came out of my fingers isn’t really – it has been snowing in New England. A lot. These are… Continue reading Apocalypse…Not So Much
Lili Boulanger: Composer for the Great Wheel of Life
Lili Boulanger, in just a few short years until her death in 1918 at the age of 24, composed orchestral, choral, and operatic works that, to me, bridge the three realms of existence: the underworld of our deepest thoughts, intuitions and emotions, the “ordinary” realm in which we live out each day, and the heavenly… Continue reading Lili Boulanger: Composer for the Great Wheel of Life
Beauty’s Revolution in a Rose
This first appeared in Moondance in Summer, 2010. A shoot rises from the wet, fertile-scented earth, crisply green and strong. Soon exuberant pink, in the shape of the sun, bursts from the stalk. The bloom does not live to be admired; it is simply perfect, as are all the flowers, grasses, and ivies that gloriously… Continue reading Beauty’s Revolution in a Rose
Goddess in a Teapot 