Category Archives: Present Day

Guidance

Posted on May 19, 2012 by jenny

Dear Guides & Guardian Spirits, I’m feeling pretty bleak.  Tears behind my eyes, my heart cold and heavy.  Please help me!     Dear Jenny, we love you very much.  We are sorry that it’s being so hard right now.  You … Continue reading →

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The Values of Belonging

Posted on April 24, 2012 by jenny

I’ve been rereading Carol Lee Flinders’ book “Rebalancing the World: Why Women Belong and Men Compete and How to Restore the Ancient Equilibrium.” THE VALUES OF BELONGING There is a way of being in the world that recoils from aggressiveness, … Continue reading →

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Thoughts about Truth

Posted on April 23, 2012 by jenny

I’ve been sitting here puzzling over the nature of “truth.”  Someone who was at my presentation last night started talking about people living long ago being warlike.  I asked “How do you know?” and he couldn’t really tell me.  I … Continue reading →

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Champion the Underdog

Posted on April 17, 2012 by jenny

I’ve been wondering why posts on activism, and work like Elisabet Sahtouris’ is important to someone suffering from PTSD.  Kathy Weingarten wrote that children raised in a “good enough” environment grow up with three assumptions:  the Universe is Benevolent, Life … Continue reading →

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Small Scale Diversity is Healthier than Huge Monocultures

Posted on March 29, 2012 by jenny

I’ve been rereading EarthDance, and I also picked up the Nature Conservancy’s magazine.  I read about a project in Northern Australia (Fish River Station) where they are giving a big chunk of land back to the Aboriginal people to manage.  … Continue reading →

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Elisabet Sahtouris

Posted on March 28, 2012 by jenny

Elisabet Sahtouris is one of my heroes, along with Vandana Shiva and Wangari Matthai.  I have a large picture of her face, copied from a magazine, on my refrigerator.  It’s been there for years.  People often ask me who she … Continue reading →

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Tuesday’s Angel

Posted on March 21, 2012 by jenny

I put on my BOGS knowing the trail would be muddy, and set out with Bella for the Fox Hill trail. The entrance to the parking lot was so muddy I got stuck.  So I locked the car, put Bella … Continue reading →

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Guidance

Posted on March 15, 2012 by jenny

Dear Guides & Guardian Spirits, I’m pretty bummed out and VERY TIRED.  I don’t know if I’m tired because I’m depressed, or depressed because I’m tired.  Just getting through the day feels like a chore that takes everything I’ve got.  … Continue reading →

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The War on Women

Posted on March 14, 2012 by jenny

Spent a lot of yesterday reading At the Root of this Longing; reconciling a spiritual hunger and a feminist thirst, by Carol Lee Flinders.  Horrified by being reminded of one mechanism that keeps patriarchy in place: that sociopaths kill women … Continue reading →

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Little Jenny with the Dar Gorani Look

Posted on March 13, 2012 by jenny

This picture was taken when I was six years old.  Alas, I lost or mislaid the original, so this is a scan of a copy — not very high quality. “Little Jenny with the Dar Gorani look” was named by a … Continue reading →

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