It is love that fashions us into the fullness of our being — not our looks, not our work, not our wants, not our achievements, not our parents, not our status, not our dreams. These are the fodder and the filler, the navigating fuels of our lives; but it is love: who we love, how we love, why we love, and that we love which ultimately shapes us.
~ Daphne Rose Kingma ~
In 2018 I went on a Goddess Pilgrimage to Crete with 18 other women from around the world. We studied with feminist theologian Dr. Carol Christ for two weeks, and learned about the forgotten Minoan Civilization–an egalitarian people who centered the ways of the Divine Feminine for tens of thousands of years. These are just a few images from this unforgettable trip…You can use the arrows on the bottom left to scroll through them.
We all begin as a bundle of bones lost somewhere in a desert, a dismantled skeleton that lies under the sand. It is our work to recover the parts. It is a painstaking process best done when the shadows are just right, for it takes much looking.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estès