Gazing around my office, my eyes rest on the elegance of a simple Passamaquoddy basket. A delicately woven creation of golden sweetgrass and blueberry stained ash, each strand is a threaded moment in time. Worked by human hands, it has been woven into a distinctive wholeness all its own. I am struck by its intrinsic […]
Last night I saw Terry Tempest Williams at the Boulder Bookstore. She gave a reading from her exquisite new book, When Women Were Birds. An eloquent and specific illuminator of words, she explores the idea of women’s voice in her book, as she looks deep within her heart to understand the many volumes of blank […]
Have you ever been driving in the car, listening to the radio, and a song comes on that is simply contagious? You get caught in the moment and start singing along: “Baby we were born to run…” Then you look over to the car next to you at the stoplight, and see the driver grinning […]
In my last blog piece, I wrote about preparing for the most recent women’s retreat I led, Nourishing the Feminine Spirit, and the Ten Steps for Creative Sacred Space. During this particular retreat, there was a lot of emotional weight felt by all the women present. A good friend of the group had recently had […]
This weekend I will have the honor of facilitating a women’s retreat for Columbine Unity Church called “Nourishing the Feminine Spirit.” In preparing for the weekend, many ideas have been floating around. As is always the case in every women’s retreat I facilitate, creative expression plays a central role. For many years I co-facilitated retreats […]
Two news stories caught my eye this week. The first was the story of a local peeping tom dubbed “the potty peeper”, for having engaged in some fairly disgusting behavior at the recent Hanuman Festival in Boulder. After discovered in one of the port-a-johns at the festival, the man admitted to a pattern of spying […]
The word ‘voice’ is used in so many ways in our world. Often times we use this word to mean the expression of one self, or the communication of an individual idea or thought. But there is great power in the voice in its most visceral form. There is power in the ‘voice voiced.’ The […]
Today is May 1. A good day to begin ‘birdsong’, my new blog. May Day, or Beltane as it was known in days of ‘olde’, is a celebration of life. Seedlings, blossoms, sprouting shoots. A day to dance, and celebrate life’s sensuality. Even in the slow growth of a cool cloudy day like today, something […]