I have always held out hope that women will discover a way to keep violence, greed, and hate from growing in our hearts and society so far we haven’t done that. Peace and love seems to have a flip side of protect (in-group)and drive away out-group). It is the old oxytocin problem, loving mama bear becomes raging protective mama bear.
Changing Climate and the Urgency of Women’s Knowledge
Women are creating our history by recording it for the first time, and by doing so we are nudging the future in an unknown, but feminine direction. We may continue to exist because of the mediating balance that women’s knowledge provides.
Oceans and Amniotic Fluid
The Earth is a Woman and the Oceans are Amniotic Fluid. Metaphor is a good thing. Sometimes the truth hides behind metaphor and peeks out at us, telling us to think more creatively, more expansively, and in a more holistic fashion.
Trinity, Mother Nature, and Two Weeks on the Road
I am eating breakfast at a Fairfield Inn in Tucumcari. And drinking coffee. Lots of coffee. I would like to make it home today. Sticking to the Interstate route, 40 to 25 to 10 adds an hour to the trip. So I’m getting on US 54 and heading SW cutting across New Mexico until I […]
Googling Gaia
Women and Communication Women have been the indexers and organizers of human life for, literally, ages. Google is attempting to mimic the natural process of organizing and accessing information about what we do, what we want, based on a more natural model that takes social relationships and context into account. Real attempts at tapping the […]
Sisters of the Earth
Happy Earth Day! I’m thinking of Earth Sisters near and far throughout time and space this Earth Day when we honor Mother Earth. Environmentalists I want to give a shout out to some of the women who influenced my understanding of the fragile globe we live upon. Gene Stratton-Porter Rachel Carson Rachel read Gene as […]