There is a tendency for people to think that everyone else knows what they know. In this day where information is but a click away, it is even easier than it once was to think that what we know and think is ubiquitous. The word Über in German means above. In contemporary parlance it also […]
To Traverse Travails
Looking at the legacy of the first generation of women to breathe life into a global digital connection is no mean feat. Looking at it before it is completed is also problematic. Examining something of which we are a part is just what thoughtful people do. We cannot get outside the system of which we are a […]
Sacred Feminine
To talk about the feminine divine in today’s world, I think it is helpful to look at a basic definition of what sacred means. sacred adjective 1 the priest entered the sacred place: holy, hallowed, blessed, consecrated, sanctified, venerated, revered; archaic blest. 2 sacred music: religious, spiritual, devotional, church, ecclesiastical. ANTONYMS secular, profane. 3 the […]
Names and Naming
Names are powerful. Most of us know that some cultures view personal names as so powerful that they are shared only with the closest immediate family members. But many things have names. A linguistics course taken long, long ago taught me about markedness, about marked and unmarked terms. In these oppositional pairs one term is […]
Mothers and Others, the Mosaic of Women in Our Lives
Mothers Mothers are probably the most influential people in the world. I am not sure that it was always this way for every culture in the world. In Sparta, mothers gave their sons over to the state to begin training as warriors at age seven. In upper class, historic, European families mothers did not nurse […]
Labyrinths, Lace, and Limitations
Limits First, let us set the record straight. Constraints can be a very good thing. Many people I have talked to think the terms limitation and constraint are the same thing. They are not. There are both limiting and enabling constraints. And sometimes those limits enable. I suspect that anyone who has parented a toddler […]