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Women’s Joy Circle: Arousal
Ooh, arousal. It has such a sexual connotation, doesn’t it? And yet it’s important to specify just what type of arousal we’re talking here. Arousal of the nervous system–the fight-or-flight...
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a letter to my dearest friend
Recently I received an acrimonious letter from a person who has been a great teacher (read: tremendous pain in the a**) in my life. As I was composing my reply, carefully choosing each word, deleting...
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our darkness is divine
English: Persephone kidnapped by Hades. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) A few years ago I heard herbalist Deborah Frances use sacred stories to describe the rhythms of living in a female body. She spoke...
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Women’s Joy Circle: the wanting
I brought a lot away from the radical pleasure workshop I taught March 30th with the inimitable Briana Schuck and the incomparable Laura Alvarez. The ringing one-liner, though, the kernel around which...
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calling all men!
To all my beloved male readers (if, indeed, there are any?)—will you please help me out? Next week, our women’s joy circle is opening to men. This is scary for me. I have loved men, I have deeply...
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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: 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: 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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elements and earth harps
This past week I took the boys and joined the inimitable Michelle Wilde at the weeklong Elements Gathering. We made cordage with wild dogbane, we carved raw alabaster into fetishes, we sewed and...
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learned helplessness
Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well — he has changed his market-cart into a...
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persephone, again
Persephone has hold of me. I know I’ve written about her before, but she won’t let go. What is it about her life, characterized by the journey to hell and back, over and over again? Light to...
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living the question
I have spent most of the past year gradually falling in love with one of the most patient and observant men I have ever known. He is attentive, generous, creative, and wise. One of the many gifts...
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