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Mother Tongue, Part 3: Calling You Home in a Language Long Forgotten
This is the part 3 of a five-part series on rediscovering, and speaking in, our mother tongue. How many languages do we ‘speak’ as women? What streams of wisdom do we have access to? What is our true...
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Mother Tongue, Part 4: She Doesn’t Pay Lip Service
This is part four of a five-part series on rediscovering, and speaking in, our mother tongue. How many languages do we ‘speak’ as women? What streams of wisdom do we have access to? What is our true...
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Mother Tongue, Part 5: Eyes and Instincts, Knowing and Soul
This is part five of a five-part series on rediscovering, and speaking in, our mother tongue. How many languages do we ‘speak’ as women? What streams of wisdom do we have access to? What is our true...
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Stay With Yourself and Let Love Handle the Rest
photo by Laura Duldner, (c) 2014 This past Saturday night… I climbed up onto a stage and did something I’ve never done before. I stood at a microphone and read my intimate poetry to a group of about...
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Unabashed & Revolutionary – Women, Poetry & Desire
Today is a day of celebration! A day of celebrating women’s voices being heard, trusted, scribed, and released. We’re celebrating Amy Palko, and her new book of poetry, From Revolutionary Lips....
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Deep-Bellied Places of Woman
Deep-Bellied Places of Woman i listen with awe to the sound of women’s souls painting their lives in words across the page, each voice different as she spills her heart into the moon’s sure embrace....
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In Your Own Language
“Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.” ~ Jack Kerouac For some time, I couldn’t call myself a writer. Then I did. Same is true for poet. Now I do. I’ve come to...
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Women Weaving Voice into One
Life force is a flame within. Creativity is this burning desire to express something into the world, into form, to live something true. Anat Vaughan-Lee writes, “We do not always know what it is or...
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A Touch of Soul, Here, on My Breath.
“…for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing; though sometimes it is necessary to reteach a thing its loveliness…” ~ Galway Kinnell :: Witnessing my own unfolding In looking back over the...
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Magic
I see her. Her left hand out reaching toward me, beckoning me to come with her. Her body is leaning the other way, to her left, showing me the way we will go. I haven’t seen her face for ages....
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Allowing My Argument With Love to Die
~~~ Small, elderly, and frail-looking-but-not-acting, she darted past me on the ashram’s dirt walkway. She almost knocked me over she was in such a hurry. As she bumped into me, I almost lost my...
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Where Three Waters Meet
Esalen and the Pacific Ocean I manage to make my way out of bed despite the darkness, the rain, and what I know is going to be cold morning air. I throw on warm clothes and a raincoat, grab my...
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Softer and More Real
“The great secret of death, and perhaps its deepest connection with us, is this: that, in taking from us a being we have loved and venerated, death does not wound us without, at the same time,...
View ArticleThe New Colossus – by Tanya Geisler
For two years now, I’ve been writing with a group of beautiful women – four of us in all. Each week we show up with our words and we witness each other’s voices. We support our desire to write the...
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Developing a Foundation For a Creative Life
ShareSparklers after Sunset by Jamie Street on Unsplash.com The other afternoon, I had a lovely interaction with the express checker at Whole Foods. He’s a fun guy. I remember him and like to be in...
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Watershed: A Moment of Awakening
Share Watershed This remembering and returning. Wave upon wave. A spiral that begins with wide arcs Never seeming to make their way around To anything recognizable. Until one day they do And I notice...
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What is the Feminine Narrative?
Sharephoto by Gary Bendig on Unsplash There is a tenderness to this world that is often seen as weak. There is an inherent beauty to all things that is so often trampled upon, like the tender...
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Limned: A Braided Essay For World Storytelling Day
Share Today, March 20th, is World Storytelling Day. And, I have a story to share with you. Many stories really, but first this one… For years now… I’ve been moving in spaces of the feminine, whether...
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We are living, breathing creatures who long to voice our aliveness.
In these times, our voices are needed. Clear. Real. As they are. No embellishment. Just pure heart and soul spoke aloud. You don’t need to know what the words are or what they will be. What matters...
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To discover great faith in yourself is a profound turning point.
Through you, life is constantly being born anew. You are an instrument of love. If you want a different world, you must give birth to it. You must come to know what is in your heart. You have a...
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