Being in the Body
Last night we danced. I'm patiently and persistently attempting to root a dance group into this community. It's taking time, but I hope in the end to have a healthy core of four or five women with whom to share this sacred practice. As I danced, I remembered an old...
Living Around the Bones
I first began thinking about bones 25 years ago when I was given a copy of Clarissa PInkola Estes's book, Women Who Run With the Wolves. She writes about discovering stories of bone people in the Southwest. Bone people are old ones who collect bones in a desert...
Cultural Appropriation
This week I'm exploring the idea of cultural appropriation. In the linked article, cultural appropriation is defined as "Taking intellectual property, traditional knowledge, cultural expressions, or artifacts from someone else's culture without permission. This can...