Giving Voice
During the time when I was writing the first Giving Voice blog I had a dream. In this dream I see a vibrant, healing green stream that runs through women from head to toe. I am told that women need to find and recognize it in themselves, so that it can flow out into life. For the green expresses what I understand as a woman's sacred relationship to life and to the divine. This blog is about how we live this in our lives and our work in community.
I loved seeing the blog post and reading the replies. Your messages are so essential for us and especially right now. They help dispel our feelings of being so terribly alone and afraid and help us to summon the courage to continue with our own unique ways of serving life." D.T.
Women of the Quiet
July 21, 2025
Several weeks ago I was walking across a parking lot, deep in thought, when a woman wearing a blue headband called out, “Are you with the quiet?” I looked at her, not comprehending. She repeated, loudly, “You with the Quiet?” Yes, I’m with the Quiet, I said. I was on my way to a daytime
A Quiet Story
March 13, 2025
In a recent storm, just after midnight, the neighbor’s oak tree fell. This magnificent, 200 year-old tree toppled over, breaking the fence at the end of our garden, damaging the water system. This was the first time I met our neighbors, as we talked early the next morning over the immense trunk of the fallen
Waiting for Our Trust
December 14, 2024
Recently, I was speaking with a woman who lives in a remote part of the country, and after the election she felt an urgency to know if she should stay there, and what should she do, how should she be? These were pressing questions, until she had a dream that showed her a way of
Seeds of Life, Seeds of Light
December 17, 2023
It was the first day of a women’s circle at a small safe parking shelter in the town where I live. People who had nowhere else to live, except for their RVs and cars, could park in a fenced in area at the edge of town where food was offered, with utilities and basic social
Tending Dreams
July 26, 2023
Many years ago, I was drawn to learn the language of the dreams and the way they spoke to me. Over the years, sitting in circles with women and listening to dreams, I came to understand a feminine way of being with dreams. The images that come to us are unique to us – our
The Way of Prayer
April 4, 2023
In a dream a woman tells me how important it is that we pray each day, and that this way of being helps the children. She impressed upon the need to do this now. That there’s not much time. This dream came like an echo of words I had heard in an interview with a
A Song for the Earth
December 6, 2022
It was quite a few years ago when I was in a small cabin at a hermitage in the Sonoma Hills. It was only for two days, and turned out to be the last retreat that I would take for a long time. On the second night, while asleep, I heard these words: So much
A Hidden Wholeness
September 20, 2022
Years ago I lived in a small fishing village by the South China Sea, working as a journalist, living with my partner. Our first child was born there. I remember seeing the grandmothers in the village carrying their young grandchildren on their backs as they bought food at the market, or washed vegetables by the
Once there was a stone…
June 24, 2022
Recently, I began working with women who are housed in a safe-parking shelter in the small town where I live. We meet in a large white tent. It’s exposed to the elements: the tent walls flap in the wind, the heat can sometimes be overwhelming. But inside the tent, there is a space. And in