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Women’s Joy Circle: Divine Feminine, Sacred Masculine
As I write this I am listening to ancient Greek circle dance music. After high school I spent a year WWOOFing, traveling from one organic farm to another, exchanging labor for room, board, and...
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Women’s Joy Circle: Setting Boundaries
Last night’s circle was a bit of a departure; after all of the opening up and radiant joy and discussion of desires we’d been doing, it seemed time to talk about boundaries and safety. “Setting...
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Women’s Joy Circle: relationship
Here in North Carolina it has been raining nonstop for close to two weeks. Long walks of exploration through newly roaring creekbeds and exciting leaf-boat journeys down gutters aside, it gets...
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Women’s Joy Circle: Healing
I’ve been thinking a lot about healing lately. I am taking 7Song’s Herbal First Aid class remotely, and dawnings of understanding about the body’s capacity to heal are beginning to break through. To...
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Women’s Joy Circle: First Response
Last week my children decided to stay in Meeting with me. (Meeting is the Quaker form of worship, and it consists of an hour or so of silence. There is no planned music or ministry, though anyone...
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Women’s Joy Circle: Internal/External ways of knowing
Giuseppe Arcimboldo – Farm Woman Going to Market In the normal course of things, writing comes to me like breathing. I do it without thinking. When I sit down to write an article or a post or a...
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Women’s Joy Circle: Do Not Disturb
For my half-birthday this year I sent out a letter to people I greatly respected, people who have known me through very diverse stages of my life, some dear old friends and some passing acquaintances....
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Women’s Joy Circle: Despair & Complaint
Last Saturday I sat in a circle of women at the home of a friend. We’d shared a bountiful and delectable meal, gathered around a cleansing fire, protected ourselves all around with candlelight and...
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Women’s Joy Circle: Sacred Circles
I have been remiss in posting lately, and I apologize. Summer is gardening and long days at the stream picking mulberries and creating new herbal infusions and cordials and rosemary cakes and...
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women’s joy circle: thank you, it’s true
Last night, for the first time, joy circle met in public, on the outdoor patio of a downtown restaurant. We were surrounded by tables of young hipsters (the men bearded, the women in cateye glasses...
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