The Sanctuary (blog)

“What should I do? Who should I be? How can one celebrate and love this glittering world, even as it becomes a sickened and dangerous… Read More »These Questions….

Ilarion Merculieff is the the founder of The Global Center for Indigenous Leadership and Lifeways and is an Unangan (Unungan), Aleut, raised in a traditional… Read More »Recovering the Sacred Feminine – An Indigenous Perspective

What if women rose again? ….What if we could reclaim, somehow, that power and respect which women had lost? What if we could somehow dismantle… Read More »Nights of Dreams and Days of Work

Last October I attended the final gathering of the Council of the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers in Phoenicia, New York. I was at the first gathering,… Read More »A Council of Women

This video moved me to my core. It felt like a calling so deep and profound that my very cells and bones resonated. Took away… Read More »“Today I Rise”

Recently I had some of my huge, crazy impossible questions. What if hundreds, thousands, millions of women Just Said No to everything that does not… Read More »“Just Say No” – Women & the Great Turning

 “I am not interested in being hopeful or optimistic or working diligently to reverse the patterned path of history we tread so reliably toward collapse… Read More »Warriors For the Human Spirit

I have been silent for a while – again. I have been grappling with some very deep and challenging stuff – still. I have been… Read More »The Impossible and the Unthinkable

  I think I’ve been afraid to speak my deepest truth. Especially since, when I have, it hasn’t been well received. People don’t want to… Read More »In the Dark Times, Will There Be Singing?*

Bill Plotkin continues to be, in my mind, one of the most important people on the planet – his work is that innovative, that necessary,… Read More »Must Reads