The Autumn Equinox ~ Stepping into the power of the dark part of the yearly cycle. This is the time when the dark, which has been growing, is in balance with the light. We are grateful for the Harvest, but we also know that Life is waning. This is time of year when Persephone descends [...]
On the sanctuarywithoutwalls events blog you will find a post which includes the registration brochures for events which will be facilitated by my friend Phoebe and me: Growing Older, Growing Wiser: Becoming an Elderwoman ~ For women 55 and older, on the second Tuesday of each month, September 14, 2010 – March 8, 2011 ~ [...]
This evening I attended an ecumenical Lenten service, as I did last week at this time. Area churches plan these services for each Wednesday evening of the Lenten season, with area ministers preaching on a given theme at one another’s churches. Soup and sandwiches are offered before each service, creating a time to connect with [...]
“It’s a question of discipline,” the little prince told me. “When you’ve finished washing and dressing, you must tend your planet.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The sun is shining, the air is relatively warm, and a stroll around the back forty (ha! forty would be nice!) reveals that crocuses and other spring green shoots are [...]
In the past few days, I felt out of sorts, as if my life no longer “fit” properly. In my experience, when I feel that discomfort – like a hermit crab that’s outgrown its borrowed shell, or a snake on the verge of molting – it is uncomfortable, constricting, dark and tight. There was nothing [...]
Born innocent, one – that’s I – strives hard to become an adult, no longer childish, worldly-wise in one’s art, one’s love, one’s life . . . Then discovers: that no one ever becomes an adult, becomes either delightfully childlike or pitifully juvenile . . . Discovers: one’s art to be outside the art game [...]
A number of years ago I attended a gathering with Jean Houston. She talked about the special social responsibility of people over fifty years of age, because elders have a life-time of experience and have “access to the depths.” What depths are these? I think of the Underworld, understood in many ways by different cultures. [...]
