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My friend As an eco feminist I am deeply concerned with the loss of the swine I cherish. One of these is the Black bear whose trips are becoming more and more scarce as the forest around me disappears. The make in this poem is unlike the accepts I used to know in that he […]
This blogpost is about biblical compositions and uncovering the wizard and spirit behind its messages. Why, you might ask, is this a project that belongs on a blog dedicated to feminism? I believe it does because it helps us to strip apart the many coatings of patriarchy with its attempts to hide and/ or alteration […]
Consider the following four birth stories 😛 TAGEND A high priestess became pregnant in a manner that was forbidden in her culture. She presented birth to a child son. Fearing for her child’s life, she fad a basket of rusheds and cast him into a flow. He was retrieved by a serviceman appointed Akki whose […]
I have long struggled with winter. I ripened in Minnesota where winters were long and savagely cold. I remember hauling myself through hip-deep snowdrifts on my move to elementary school and that was in the suburbs! The North of England, where I lived for virtually twenty years, has a much milder atmosphere. But being so […]
I am of my mother- from the swirl adepts of the cosmos through the long moving, contacting and expanding- birthed of her body, nourished by her love. ” Star Stuff” by Judith Shaw ” My Black Madonna” by Judith Shaw I am mother. You came to see me through blood and bones to be suckled […]
My voice has been absent from the FAR Community as of late; and without good reason. Rather than engaging in dialogue, I have remained in a silo, alone with my recollects. Something shifted for me a few years ago; and I haven’t been the same. I can’t enunciate it. But what I can say is […]
On Friday, Nov. 6th, the working day before the Biden/ Harris scoot was announced I expended a period in a profoundly meditative commonwealth. I live in the NY City metropolitan area and it was a beautiful day. I principally was sitting in my backyard in a patch of sunshine musing on the world and striving […]
Over 20 year ago, I arbitrarily came across the following passage from Sonnet X by Edna St. Vincent Millay 😛 TAGEND Upon this knack senility, in its darknes hour, Rains from the sky a meteoric shower Of details . . . they lie unquestioned, uncombined. Wisdom enough to leech us of our hardship Is daily […]
Early in Jouse d’Arbaud’s 1926 Provencal novella, The Beast of Vacares, the narrator, a 15 th century gardian or bull herder, describes how in summer la Vieio ie danso–the Old Dancer — “can be glimpsed on the dazzle salt flats” that surrounding the Vacares lagoon in the Camargue part of Southern France. In a tone, […]
The Torah reading for the first day of Rosh haShanah, the Jewish new year, is not, as one might expect, the process of preparing the world( Rosh haShanah was Friday night, Saturday and Sunday, 9/18 -9/ 20 ). Instead, the adjust see is Genesis 21, the story of how Sarah, spouse of Abraham, contributes birth […]