I went scavenging at Pixabay.com for images to use on this blog this month, October, and quickly became bored with orange pumpkins, cutout silhouettes of cats, and depictions of ugly crone witches. So I found some images that are not unique or totally original, but that have a truth of season in them. Foggy field. With orange, […]
Dreams of Strength and Wisdom
The balance of power is shifting. Let us continue to work toward wisdom, as the women elders we are developing into have more important work in preservation of the world and humanity, as part of that living system, than any generation has faced. We are up to the task. We are finding our way, making our way.
Life to Action
Last week I wrote about several topics that touched or connected with my personal life: anthropology/archaeology, 20th century culture change, and women’s economic practices. If I were given to superstitious behavior I would say that I have been given the amazing, sometimes difficult, but always informational rich, experiences I have had in life so that I […]
Vera Bradley Is Not Who She Never Was
Regular readers will be surprised at my choice of topic for today in this non-compensated post about the little woman’s accessory company gone global from the Northeastern Indiana close to where I grew up – Vera Bradley located in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Except that the company is not actually in Fort Wayne from what I […]
Autumn and Bygone Days
In the spring I do, in the autumn I think. We are an urban people now who reckon time passing by the changing of decorations in stores and the types of sales offered by retailers. As a woman who grew up playing, observing, and walking amid overgrown fence-lines, that I like to think of as […]
Cahokia. No Gesundheit Needed.
Cahokia may sound like a sound made during a sneeze but it is actually a UNESCO World Heritage Site near St. Louis. I thought today, the autumnal equinox, would provide a great context to write about the mounds near St Louis that are evidence for the importance of seasonal reckoning and measurement to the First Peoples of America. […]