State of Wilderness

There is an ancient myth that keeps popping up in my life, and I am starting to wonder if it is connected to an ancient rift that I have been sorting through in therapy.  The myth is that of Persephone, who was kidnapped by Hades and taken to the Underworld.  Her mother Demeter searched for…

The women gather near the nature center at the Houston Arboretum. Some greet each other as old friends, and some are first timers, like my friend Lisa that I unwittingly enticed into this. Lisa and I had already been at the arboretum for close to an hour looking for birds, and she agreed to meet…

In the predawn hours on thus particular Wednesday, August 28th, the planets Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and Saturn were aligned in their orbits around the Sun with the Earth as an observer in a planetary parade. During this time, I was lying in bed, drifting somewhere between sleep and waking, unaware that the planets…

My friend tells me she doesn’t like women’s circles, they aren’t for her.  I am surprised by this, as she seems exactly like the type that you might find at one.  “I don’t want to be doing this ‘the Goddess in me recognizes the Goddess in you’ shit when I know deep down that those…