“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 thing? What can be said in response to the arrogance and illogic of those who would wreck the world? What are the words to say to people who deeply care, […]
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 way. He’s on my bucket list of people I want to meet someday but, for now, I want to share this beautiful wisdom with you: “Ilarion’s belief is that without […]
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 this planet-destroying patriarchy and recreate a world in which we lived in balance? (1) THIS is a question that is foremost on my mind. For many years I’ve been asking […]
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, also in Phoenicia, when they formed their Council twelve years ago and I had followed their progress all along the way. About halfway through their time together, they came to […]
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 breath, made tears flow, heart wide open. Women: watch. Men: watch with your women.
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 serve life and the welfare of all beings? What if we said No to war, abuse, hunger, violence against and destruction of others and the Earth? What if we said […]
“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 I am interested in being able to stay in the midst of this terrible travesty that degrades the human spirit or denies we have one caught on the balance beam […]
I have been silent for a while – again. I have been grappling with some very deep and challenging stuff – still. I have been “stuck between the impossible and the unthinkable”* and it has been trying hard to render me speechless. Clearly, sometimes succeeding. The “unthinkable,” to paraphrase David Roberts, is the future into […]
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 talk about changing and dying, even though that is the nature of all things, even though changing and dying can lead to healing and initiation and rebirth. And even though […]
Bill Plotkin continues to be, in my mind, one of the most important people on the planet – his work is that innovative, that necessary, and that potentially transformational. I feel moved to give him yet another mention in this blog. Bill has written three books and, while each can stand alone as a brilliant […]