Posts Tagged ‘ women ’

Peace Pilgrim is Back in Town

Any movement for peace seems to be an open door to a future I’d like to enter. There are people throughout our lives and before that have made a cause their cause and entered an arena that was larger than them.  This is what happened to Mildred Norman Ryder. She transformed into Peace Pilgrim,...

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Passports

Passports  I want to tell you about Louise Bourgeois and the trees shaped by the cold.  The trees are called krummholz.  Their roots look like old sirens, remind me of Louise.  A picture of the krummholz up on the side of my printer also shows their roots.  When I saw a picture of Louise...

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Threads

“We must lose our mothers.”  That’s what they say. The words of my mother’s friend Sarah are always returning to me, like a Greek chorus, like the Miami Beach blues.  “We must lose our mothers.” If we must lose our mothers, do we also have to hear these words echo in our memories reminding...

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