But Wait! There's More...

This project started as a book. I began writing about the global culture of women, the feminine principle on the planet right now, as I was experiencing it all around me, wherever I went. It became obvious that the project, an invitation for women to speak what it is we know as if human survival depended upon us doing so, came out of that initial book. Well, now that the GCW has been full-steam-ahead for two years, now that women's stories are filling the database and communities are cropping up here in the US with plans to expand the invitation to make sure it reaches all women - as many as humanly possible - the book has come back. It's time to finish what was started. But it's not as simple as it seemed back then. One thing I have realized is that so much is at stake at this point but also, so much needs to be included. We have women's stories. Beautiful, powerful, courageous every-day women - who are the reason that human culture still exists on the planet - have offered their hearts and voices toward the weaving of a global tapestry of female power and celebration. And to truly capture what it means to be them, to be you, to be me, this book will have to include far more than our stories. Our stories are the intimate description of our experience. The offering that has the power to build indestructible bridges of Love between women, families, villages, even opposing countries and religions. A book that speaks to this fullness of feminine power power and celebration needs to include inquiries into how we're coupling, birthing and raising our children, building and sustaining thriving communities despite everything, how we're educating ourselves and each other, how women with assets are supporting those with visions, how women are re-shaping religion and returning to spirituality. And more, it must include material on both the optimal and realistic care and feeding of our female Souls. We need to tackle questions like, 'can the feminine survive within the nuclear family?' and 'How do women who are filled with vision truly earn a living without selling themselves out?' There is so much - and we're expecting your help! We're now asking for your thoughts, written or spoken, on all of the above and anything else you feel is pertinent to this endeavor. In essence, what might end up being created is a manifesto and bible for full, unabashed, wild and authentic female expression in the new millennium. Isn't about time something like that were offered?

Bounty, Beauty and Baskets of Gratitude

It has been quite a while since I posted last. To say that many things have happened, that this journey continues to unfold in the most miraculous way, that each day is filled with events and magic that certainly were not on the schedule, well...trust me when I say that though there haven't been regular posts, a lot is happening in the evolution of the vision of the GCW. So, over the course of several catch-up posts, let me see if I can bring you all up to date. Blythe's journey into organic gardening (which was the vision and invitation she received during our trip to the borderlands of Texas/Mexico this winter) has been a wild success. Seeing her - in her backyard - standing in the midst of the orbit of wildness she has nurtured is like experiencing a modern-day Lillith come to reclaim what is rightfully Hers. Yes there was backbreaking work, most of which she did entirely by herself! Yet, standing with her in her garden I get the distinct vision that, truthfully, her intention, her willingness to be taught by the soil, by the sun, to learn by listening and ask without hesitation (which all require the quiet grace of faith rather than the power-over wrangling that is man's domination over the unapologetically abundant thing we call 'nature'), that these abilities she values are what have made her garden the outrageous expression of fecundity and celebration that it is. Sunflower explosions, packed mounds of frosted kale, feathery tulsi leaves, hearty marigolds standing sturdy in their spaces. It's all a reminder that life wants to happen. We know, as we move through our days, that when we witness the absence of life, great energy has gone into making it so. Naturally, death happens all the time, but natural death happens in service of life- to create life. The death we have wreaked on the planet is a one-way death. Death out of relationship. Death out of Fear; so alienated from our own Selves and our origins and bankrupt because of it that we cannot allow the miraculous fecundity that is naturally all around us to persist. Blythe has said "yes!" and for that I am so grateful.