It took me a moment or two before I realized I was hearing something I’d never heard before. Standing in the still-slumbering garden of my suburban home, I listened, mesmerized, to the unrecognizable sound of silence.
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A few years ago, after being told I would be arrested if I ventured out into the fields one more time, I was so filled with rebellious anger I continued to take the dogs out there, only after sunset, keeping to the edges. But these fields are some of the last remaining coyote hunting and living territory in this part of Boulder…
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This time of late Autumn is the time of Ancestral celebration and remembrance. It is a time when, across many cultures, it is said 'the veils between the Worlds are thin' – that our departed family can venture across the threshold to be with us, tell us stories, help us remember integral pieces of our own belonging and wellness…
Read MoreWestern Industrial Culture does not prepare us for the tremendous losses that have always been a natural part of being human. But worse, it cannot afford to prepare us for the impossible losses that have now become ubiquitous.
Read MoreWhen I was 11, by some fortuity that happened over and over in my childhood, I discovered permission in the form of words (words that served to weave spells of wild rebellion rather than domestication). Margaret Atwood told me….I had a power heretofore unknown to me…
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Diane di Prima, beat poet and activist, says, “the only war that matters is the war against the imagination”. This morning I am alive with the truth of this statement. And, I am filled with grief and rage.
Read More“Eventually, if we are to find our way into true wholeness – delivering our most precious gifts to The World – the leader/teacher/elder-before-her-time within us must have her own safe place to be held, where she can shed her well-used capacity to be everything everyone else needs in the moment, to be, instead, what SHE needs for herself.”
Read More“Women, we are surrounded by egregious betrayal…so we imagine, so we are told. Betrayal by men, men who we thought were good men, even great men, who turn out to be violators. Yet, if the #metoo movement is to be a true revolution, an evolution of justice, fomented by true change-agents and cultural revolutionaries, if we women who are saying, “STOP, NO MORE!” imagine we are exercising our full power in service of true change, we will eventually, sooner than later, need to turn our wise accusatory vision toward the well-domesticated, fast-asleep violator in ourselves. “
“Consider, Women, for just one moment, what your life might look and feel like, from what place of security and peace would you move through the world, if you had not one stitch of the internalized obsession around your appearance living in your psyche?”
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…”we are taught to orphan ourselves from the wild world around us; to imagine we are above it, removed from it, and inconsequential to it. It is an inevitable consequence, just one small step from here, that we learn to silence, denigrate, and mistrust the wild within us. “
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