Thank you to Laurie Brown, proprietor of “Our Local Yarn Shop” in Olympia, WA for displaying my “Madness of Mis” shawl at her shop for the Olympia Arts Walk this past weekend. A little about this project: For millennia, women’s stories and women’s culture have been silenced, suppressed and misrepresented. This shawl was inspired by […]
My granddaughter Mathilde and me, Pleasant Valley, Montana (2012) I’m happy to share with you a new publication from Demeter Press, “Grandmothers and Grandmothering.” I’m especially happy because included in this anthology is an essay that I wrote about my paternal Grandmother, “Gail Peters Little: Relationship of Love and Abandonment.” You can check it […]
As part of the Association for the Study of Women and Mythology (ASWM) symposium they featured a juried art exhibition. I was pleased that they included one of my art pieces in the gallery. You can view and read more about it at the link below. There are also links to the full gallery of […]
When I speak of spirituality I’m not referring to religion. Like nature and art, spirituality is a complexity filled with beauty, intrigue, and unanswered questions. Is it the world that cannot be seen? Is it something somewhere out there or is it a world inside ourselves? I’m aware that not everyone believes in the spirit […]
Art is another phenomena that is impossible to define in simple terms. The world of art is as complex as the world of nature and its role in world cultures is as old as the human race. Humans have engaged with creative activities since we arrived on this planet. Art takes on many forms including […]
How do you define nature? I find the definitions of nature a curiosity with a wide range of interpretations. It’s impossible to frame the idea of nature in simple terms. Philosophers, poets, scientists, artists, all have their view on the matter of nature. My intent here is to explain my use of the term in […]
All peoples of the Earth once lived close to the land. Their lives depended on a landbased economy that required an awareness and knowledge of the complex web of relationships connecting them with the natural world and as a result, many of our early human ancestors held all life to be sacred. These ancestors lived […]
Herbs & Honey: Food as good medicine Whether or not Hippocrates can be credited with the saying, “Let food be thy medicine, and let medicine be thy food,” we know that our food choices impact our health and well-being. In keeping with the spring season this essay will focus on herbs, plants, and food choices […]
