Hundreds of years from now, when people look back on this time, I think that one of the most important steps forward we will have made is an understanding and honoring of both speech and quiet, voice and silence. Being quiet, now, is considered to be a sign of weakness, of not having anything worth… Continue reading The Dance of Voice and Silence
Tag: women’s spirituality
The Witch in the Curio Cabinet
In a curio cabinet of a historical society in a small New England town is the story of the town’s witch. She was a woman who lived in the mid-1700s and was called a witch but was, most likely, not someone who healed with herbs or practiced a non-Christian spirituality. She did wear a long… Continue reading The Witch in the Curio Cabinet
When Death Comes
Over the past couple of weeks death has come so often into my home it seems as if as if it lives here. Among the deaths I have experienced have been that of a friend; a husband, an aunt, and an uncle of people I care deeply about; a grandchild and friends of people I… Continue reading When Death Comes
Eating Your Way to the Sacred Feminine
My lifelong relationship with food could be called dysfunctional at best; we just never seem to understand and support one another; we bicker a lot. I am probably the most typical of typical 21st century American eaters, yet I have the same body image whether I weigh 125 or 150 pounds, and it isn’t good;… Continue reading Eating Your Way to the Sacred Feminine
Celebrating Ourselves as Sacred Women While Driving a Teen to the Mall
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
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…
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 in a Teapot 