Women Moving the Edge

In 2006 I got an email from a friend that invited me to a gathering she was co-hosting in Belgium called Women Moving the Edge. “I have no idea what that is” I thought “but that is so cool and I know I am moving something, so I am going!”
In February 2007 I attended the [...]

Childlike Wonder

In high school, throughout college and during my first years as a music therapist, I worked with mentally disabled children and adults, encouraging them to build life skills through the beats and vibrations of music. I always loved being with these ’special needs’ people. They are special indeed. I delighted in how they found joy [...]

“You Are the Chalice!”

During a visionary art workshop, I saw, in my mind’s eye, a healing image of a chalice being held up by two hands. I was struggling. My mind went to work, playing with line and color, trying to bring that image into form on the paper. The hands I drew were stiff, the chalice lifeless. [...]

The Woman Under the Shroud

In 2000, a disturbing petition was going around the internet. It explained graphically how women were being beaten, stoned, silenced and mistreated in Afghanistan under Taliban rule. The e-mail was a call to sign a petition stating that it was unacceptable for women, anywhere in the world, to be treated as subhuman and calling for [...]

Backyard Enlightenment

Three hours! How can I walk that long? That was my reaction to the assignment from my Masters program in Transpersonal Psychology. “Go outside for at least three hours, if not eight. Have no plan. Just go where your feet take you. Learn to trust your intuition and pay attention to all you experience.”
“I don’t [...]

Art and Collective Creativity

January 2009 rolled around. It was a whole new year for me. A whole new life. I get to claim ME, not worrying about what anyone else thinks and hopefully not stopping myself anymore.
I feel like journaling, painting, pulling out all those supplies I have collected all these years. But wait… maybe I should get [...]

Feminine Power Hindu Style

Yesterday I had a conversation with my dearest friends about the passion and fortitude it takes to “hold the field” and do things in a new, expansive way. In other words, how do we stay in inquiry, slow down, not rush to make decisions and stay in the not knowing long enough to take the [...]