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• Happy Thanksgiving by Barbara Ardinger

  By Barbara Ardinger on November 1, 2020 • ( 11 )

  

  Will our families gather for Thanksgiving feasts this year? Will aunts and uncles and cousins come from near and far to sit around our dining room tables? Does anyone have a table that’s big enough for social distancing? As I… Read More ›

• Two Rabbits and the Moon By Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on October 31, 2020 • ( 6 )

  

  The Cottontail watched me climb a steep hill to meet her at the Cross – road. She split the stone. Datura delusions emerge from this bloodline. I stumble down down down… Her feet beat a mourning drum I’m in free… Read More ›

• Healing Uphill

  By Marcia Mount Shoop on October 30, 2020 • ( 18 )

  

  These are trying times for all sentient beings. We are all carrying the intensity and stress in our bodies and spirits. I feel it. You feel it. In fact, we are feeling it together—sharing an experience even though interpreting and… Read More ›

• The Mask and the Mirror-Part 1 by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on October 29, 2020 • ( 9 )

  

  When I first saw this extraordinary clay round last spring I was immediately captured by the story being told. As I recall it was the second, and to me, the central image in a series of three that Debra Fritts… Read More ›

• Cat – Mysterious and Magical by Judith Shaw

  By Judith Shaw on October 28, 2020 • ( 19 )

  

  Cat moves elegantly through our lives with grace, independence and an unquenchable self-assurance. “My dog believes its human; my cat believes its god” is a saying reflected by the beliefs of our ancestors. Since Neolithic days cats have been associated… Read More ›

• Glimpsing La Vièio ié Danso – “The Untouchable Wild Goddess” – in Jóusè d’Arbaud’s Beast of Vacarés by Joyce Zonana

  By Joyce Zonana on October 27, 2020 • ( 9 )

  

  Nearly a century later, d’Arbaud’s words still have the power to startle and delight, vividly evoking Earth’s sacredness.

• A Story to Inspire Hope by Elizabeth Chloe Erdmann

  By Guest Contributor on October 26, 2020 • ( 4 )

  

  These days deep emotions seem to burst forth at unexpected moments. While in the car between visiting a pumpkin farm owned by friends and the local cider mill, I decided to pull out a crumpled paper with my brief presentation… Read More ›

• Netflix Pandemic Show binge-a-thon by Anjeanette LeBoeuf

  By Anjeanette LeBoeuf on October 25, 2020 • ( 2 )

  

  Given the progressively dismal state of affairs in the nation currently, I have relied heavily on binge watching shows on Netflix. One of my coping strategies I started using in graduate school was having tv shows or movies playing in… Read More ›

• Ancient Mother by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on October 24, 2020 • ( 3 )

  

    On the path through the pines I see clumps of moss scattered, an old tree trunk is raked as if with claws; clumps of downed bark food for the earth. My heart soars. Wild hope pours through me like… Read More ›

• Poem: In These United States- The Court Supreme By Marie Cartier

  By Marie Cartier on October 23, 2020 • ( 10 )

  

  We have nine justices usually but one of our most beloved, and notorious, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, RBG, has gone to the Summerland, across the Rainbow Bridge, to the afterlife—wherever that is for her, she’s gone there. May her memory be… Read More ›

• From Military Wife to Peacebuilder – Learning from the Greenham Common Peace Women by Karen Leslie Hernandez

  By Karen Leslie Hernandez on October 22, 2020 • ( 12 )

  

  There’s a pinnacle moment, I believe, when everyone’s path is laid before them. The funny thing about that, is that we usually don’t see that moment, until many years later. It is then, at that sudden moment of clarity, in… Read More ›

• Embroidery in the Time of Covid by Esther Nelson

  By Esther Nelson on October 21, 2020 • ( 18 )

  

  In her recent essay on this “Feminism and Religion” site, Ivy Helman wrote:  “Over the past few months, I’ve been struggling to write posts.  This month is no different.  I am currently sitting with four different half-drafts on three semi-related… Read More ›

• Matriarchal Manifesta by Heide Goettner-Abendroth

  By Guest Contributor on October 19, 2020 • ( 22 )

  

  What is the STATUS of WOMEN today? To cite a brief summary of the 1980 UN Report:  WOMEN make up half of the world population, work nearly two thirds of all hours worked, receive one tenth of worldwide income, and… Read More ›

• Child of the Earth by Elizabeth Cunningham

  By Elizabeth Cunningham on October 18, 2020 • ( 47 )

  

  I have a vivid childhood memory of being sick with the stomach flu and standing in the doorway of my parents’ bedroom looking for my mother. Her care for sick children was tender and thorough. She would bring us ginger… Read More ›

• Wisdom from our Ancient Female Lawgiver and Judge Traditions by Carolyn Lee Boyd

  By Carolyn Lee Boyd on October 17, 2020 • ( 15 )

  

  As I have witnessed both the joy of so many across the world at the nomination of Kamala Harris for Vice President and the deep sorrow at the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, I am struck by the fact that,… Read More ›

• Higher Self and Ego by Vanessa Soriano

  By Vanessa Soriano on October 16, 2020 • ( 10 )

  

  I have this morning ritual that goes like this: press snooze 8 times, finally turn off the alarm, oversleep, get up, drink lemon water + celery juice, and then I’m supposed to meditate.  What I really want to do is… Read More ›

• Yes, there are Goddesses in the Bible, Part 5 by Janet Maika’i Rudolph

  By Janet Rudolph on October 15, 2020 • ( 9 )

  

  As I wrote my last blog post, the Great Goddess of the Canaanites, Ashera was honored and worshipped (according to the bible) within and through groves of trees. Ashera and El, the “great bull god” were deeply connected. In fact, in… Read More ›

• October Magic, by Molly Remer

  By Molly Remer on October 14, 2020 • ( 6 )

  

  In was in October that my last grandmother died, my last living grandparent. As the leaves turn to red and gold once more, I wake thinking of her each morning. I wake thinking of my maternal grandmother too, who died… Read More ›

• Telepathy, Women, and Birds by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on October 13, 2020 • ( 6 )

  

  I am a naturalist and ethologist who has studied many animals and birds in their natural habitat; my 15 year study of Maine’s black bears is perhaps the best example of the work I do. I am a dedicated animal… Read More ›

• “Fertility” and the Regeneration of Life by Carol P. Christ

  By Carol P. Christ on October 12, 2020 • ( 13 )

  

  Prehistoric and indigenous religious traditions are often disparagingly mischaracterized as primitive fertility religions, concerned not with higher morality, but rather with the processes of reproduction of humans, animals, and plants. When these religions feature a Great Mother Goddess, it may… Read More ›

• Write on Lilith! (Write on Eve!) by Ivy Helman

  By Ivy Helman on October 11, 2020 • ( 11 )

  

  Over the past few months, I’ve been struggling to write posts.  This month is no different.  I am currently sitting with four different half-drafts on three semi-related topics, none of which I seem to be able to complete.  I’ve gone… Read More ›

• A Deep Ecology of Horse Manure by Mary Sharratt

  By Mary Sharratt on October 10, 2020 • ( 34 )

  

  My recent move from Northern England to the Silver Coast of Portugal has been a radical change on so many levels. Not only am I coming to grips with a different climate and culture and immersed in learning a very… Read More ›

• This “Columbus Day,” Watch Frozen 2 (Or Watch It Again!) by Tallessyn Zawn Grenfell-Lee

  By Tallessyn Zawn Grenfell-Lee on October 9, 2020 • ( 4 )

  

  (Yes, this post contains some SPOILERS. It might make you love the movie more, though, which happened to me with this article about Mad Max: Fury Road.) When I was in high school, in the early 90s, a Methodist pastor… Read More ›

• Passionflower Autumn by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on October 6, 2020 • ( 11 )

  

  I am gazing out the window; an almost bare leafed apple tree’s sap has begun its descent for the winter months. Trees participate in a great round; breathing slows as the tree becomes drowsy. Soon the merciful cold will put… Read More ›

• Patriarchy as a System of Male Dominance Created at the Intersection of the Control of Women, Private Property, and War by Carol P. Christ

  By Carol P. Christ on October 5, 2020 • ( 7 )

  

    Recently feminist scholar Vicki Noble said this is the best definition of patriarchy she has read–but she hadn’t known of it earlier! I am am republishing it now in hopes that all of you will share it on your… Read More ›

• The Quality of Mercy by Barbara Ardinger

  By Barbara Ardinger on October 4, 2020 • ( 10 )

  

  The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes… This speech (Act IV, scene 1) from The… Read More ›

• White Monkey Chronicles by Isabella Ides

  By Guest Contributor on October 3, 2020 • ( 12 )

  

  A gift from author Isabella Ides:  Hello FARsighters!! This is more of an announcement than an article. My novel, WHITE MONKEY CHRONICLES, which has been reviewed by Elizabeth Cunningham on the FAR site, will be offered for FREE for five days, Oct 1st through… Read More ›

• Photo Essay: RBG Memorial by Marie Cartier

  By Marie Cartier on October 2, 2020 • ( 2 )

  

  RBG Memorial, Long Beach Courthouse, Long Beach, CA September 19, 2020 All photos by: Marie Cartier

• Feminist Parenting, Part 2 — What are Children? Are Children Human? by Trelawney Grenfell-Muir

  By Trelawney Grenfell-Muir on October 1, 2020 • ( 12 )

  

  The first thing I do in parenting courses is ask students their most basic beliefs about children. Students are startled by this opening slide, “what are children?” The obvious, knee-jerk response to the question, “Are children human?” is “Of course!”… Read More ›

• Bareskin by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on September 29, 2020 • ( 9 )

  

  When we meet our deep brown eyes mirror a mutual need for light to penetrate human darkness. Your eyes are wary and fearful; Mine hunger for your touch. I cry out softly “Don’t be afraid… I love you”. We share… Read More ›

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