Have you ever gone on a bear hunt?
Perhaps…
when you were in kindergarten
and were read the book
‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’
about friends
swishing through tall grass
splashing through a stream
climbing a high hill
peering into a dark cave…
And facing a fierce bear
Read MoreI’ve always seen
First Position of a
ballerina’s arms circling
the space in front of her as
pure beauty and tenderness.
It looks as if she is claiming
that space of fifteen inches
in front of her as her own.
Long ago,
in another time in my life,
when I was a teacher of young children
and we were settling ourselves down to hear a story...
I would encourage them to trace
an imaginary circle
over their heads...
to their sides...
and front and back.
This was their story-time bubble
their own space
that held them like loving arms
as they listened with their heart
to the adventures of the likes of
Frederick & Frances & Ferdinand
It was a magical time
We all felt safe
This month is the seventy-fifth anniversary of the death of Anne Frank.
This valiant fifteen-year-old heroine lived her defining years in hiding and under a cloud of fear. Yet her bright spirit reaches across three-quarters of a century and speaks compellingly to us about hope and dreams and goodness.
Read MoreThe Future isn’t written in the Stars
It’s written in Jam Jars.
Could it be that Cinderella
Is a Feminist??
Not the Disney Cinderella
but the Brothers Grimm Cinderella…
You know,
the one where the Sisters cut off their toe to fit into the slipper
And Cinderella runs away from the Ball three times
And the Prince puts tar on the stairs finally to stop her.
How does Cinderella go from
a dreamy “A Dream Is A Wish…”
to an assertive
“I WISH!”
Hint: She’s a Feminist!
Dear Wise One,
Your deep Wisdom Self,
your True Self,
within you,
is given to you
to guide your life.
This guidance is called Discernment.
Discernment is different from making choices
about things and actions in your life
where you list the pros and cons
and make a choice.
Why Sophia?
Why is it important to light up
the beauty and goodness of your feminine soul?
Because,
to paraphrase the words of a true wise woman,
Helen Luke
Until the Feminine Spirit is fully experienced as
separate and of equal value
by the individual and by the world
it cannot engage as an equal partner in the world.
Sophia’s Way
is the Way of the Heart
which is the intentional act of
bringing the mind down into the heart
and looking out from the heart
at the situation you are facing.
That ‘Way’ has been described for centuries
by spiritual guides through the ages.
Recently, in the past decade,
Science has started speaking about this
Way of the Heart.
Dear Wise One,
Sophia’s Spirit is present throughout all of a woman’s life.
But if I had to choose one time She makes a full-court press
into a woman’s consciousness
I would say it’s between the ages of fifteen to twenty-five.
Those years are a sacred time in a young woman’s life.
“We left the camp singing.”
Dear Wise One,
Those are last written words
of a real-life Sophia
Etty Hillesum
as she was driven out of all security
into Auschwitz and her death.
