by adminwomen | Jul 24, 2026 | Crone, Elder, Fierce Compassion, Spiritual Voyage, Wisewoman Transition
BEARING WITNESS I just have returned from a Zen Peacemaker’s Retreat to the Black Hills of South Dakota where I continued my study and engagement with Indigenous cultures. I had no idea how much of me was longing for a total plunge deep into the Lakota history,...
by adminwomen | Apr 24, 2026 | Fierce Compassion
The Crone’s Truth Mandala Truth is below the surface of everything Feeling allows the crust of distrust to crack open But fear, discomfort, competition, indifference, greed and unexpressed anger Form a fake crust that hardens over time. I am now a crone with a truth...
by adminwomen | Mar 9, 2026 | Fierce Compassion
WHAT IS YIN AND YANG? I’ve heard from my meditation and sangha leaders a similar message through the years. “Why don’t you bring your practice into your life?” This question was challenging for me because I didn’t see what they were seeing that brought forth this...
by adminwomen | Dec 28, 2025 | Crone, Elder, Mindfulness, Self-Compassion, Spiritual Voyage, Wisewoman Transition
You don’t have to know The Way, The Way knows The Way You don’t have to Plan The way Trust the Way Feel your Way The Way knows The Way knows The Way knows The Way. —Song by Lindsay Scott This song resonates with my year of riding the waves of life as an elder. ...
by adminwomen | Oct 10, 2025 | Deep Diving - Stage 3, Embodiment, Fierce Compassion, Mindfulness, Phase III — Diving Into The Deep
I just had an incredible day with two friends I have known for 45 years. I met them in Steamboat Springs, CO, when I was living there in 1980. Now, here in Longmont, it was just as great as each time we have gotten together to ski, hike, climb mountains, backpack,...
by adminwomen | Jun 23, 2025 | Deep Diving - Stage 3, Fierce Compassion, Grief, Phase III — Diving Into The Deep, Spiritual Voyage
Finding what is Sacred requires facing our Pain What kind of action is required as we witness the amoral actions of our political leaders each and every day in this country? What kind of action will it take as human beings to shift our moral compass, to heal our...
by adminwomen | May 16, 2025 | Embodiment, Mindfulness, Nature practices, Self-Compassion
The Peace of Wild Things When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night in fear, in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the...
by adminwomen | Mar 24, 2025 | Crone, Elder, Fierce Compassion, Self-Compassion, Spiritual Voyage, Wisewoman Transition
If you are in your sixties, you are already a crone, sage, elder!! The historical goddess literature puts those of us in our sixth or seventh decade right into the Crone stage, but did you really know what historically the crone is all about? The Crone Goddess is...
by adminwomen | Feb 16, 2025 | Fierce Compassion
HOW DO WE CHOOSE COMPASSION OVER SELF-PRESERVATION? The natural inclination to come alongside each other and offer connection is compassion. “To be with” is the definition of compassion. However, when we are frightened, unsafe, disconnected, we have to work harder...
by adminwomen | Jan 6, 2025 | Deep Diving - Stage 3, Fierce Compassion, Phase IV — Rebirthing
My midlife had hardly arrived when tragedy first hit in my life. At 32 my youngest and closest sister was killed in a freaky car accident. Poof, she was gone! She was only 26. I didn’t know how to grieve, much less feel my pain that had shut down my body in shock...
