Inspiration arises from all sources. Yesterday morning, I again came to the last few pages of a book I never tire of reading, Daughters of Copper Woman by Anne Cameron. Whenever I thin my library, it’s one of the books that’s been a keeper for 20+ years. Once again, it brought me home to my core purpose, weaving and mending the society of women, the contribution of the feminine to the world, and what Cameron’s book calls our “soft power.” Here’s a section of the book’s ending poem:
In golden light
I recognize the enemy faces
fear of our bodies
fear of our visions
fear of our healing
fear of our love
fear of sisterkind
fear of brotherkind
fear of fear
love is healing
healing is love
There are Women everywhere with fragments
gather fragments
weave and mend
When we learn to come together we are whole
When we learn to recognize the enemy
we will know what we need to know
to learn how to come together
to learn how to weave and mend
In this morning’s Wheeeee! We’re Alive free tele-fun call, we danced with what we are weaving and what we are mending in our lives. Relationship to self, broken heartedness, connection to the divine, new ways of being -
these and other patterns of human life all showed up as the shared stories unfolded. As the poem says, “when we learn to come together we are whole.” Women left the call having affirmed the one thing they would mend this week.
these and other patterns of human life all showed up as the shared stories unfolded. As the poem says, “when we learn to come together we are whole.” Women left the call having affirmed the one thing they would mend this week. Facing our fears (those “enemy faces”) and doing our real work is, I believe, the core of human life and is accomplished in the company of others. When women take action, we make the lives and world we want.
What do you want to act on?
Six women have the opportunity to take action while being “fiercely loved and supported” in the new EveryDay Leaders tele-coaching group scheduled to start May 5. Click here for more information and the registration link.
Yours in the weaving,
Nika
