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Gender, Marriage and Sarai Sierra’s Death-Part 3

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Mar 022013
 
Gender, Marriage and Sarai Sierra's Death-Part 3

Reading Time: 7 minutes  Gender, Marriage and Sarai Sierra’s Death- Part 3 This is the third in a series of three posts about how Sarai Sierra’s tragedy connects to issues of gender and human rights within marriage. Read the first post here. Read the Second post here. In the previous post: ————————— The warrior in women is an extreme archetype. Her Shadow face is our “Crazy Woman” and she is a blood-thirsty warrior. When a woman decides to fight, she is deadly for anyone around. She is not playing games. She is out to kill. The game is over when a woman fights back. That is one of the reasons why women who have been abused for years may suddenly killed their attacker in a really bloody and violent explosion. I am not justifying their behavior. I am pointing out that the way of “fighting” that is so normal for many men to use in daily arguments is detrimental to women’s limbic system and psyche. When women fight, it is not a game. When they are among friends and family, they want bonding and [Read more.]

Gender, Marriage and Sarai Sierra’ death

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Feb 272013
 
Gender, Marriage and Sarai Sierra’ death

Reading Time: 6 minutes Gender, Marriage and Sarai Sierra’ death   What conversations are you listening around the tragedy suffered by Sarai Sierra? Are the responses from women and men widely opposite or at odds? Are others condemning or blaming her before all the evidence is out? Do women feel scared? Are men angry? Here’s a story that shares how Sarai’s death tapped into painful issues of gender and human rights within marriage. This is a long post, so I’ve divided it into three posts. Please read the entire story and then you are welcome to respond. When Joy gets poisoned Several days ago I was at a social celebration. Several women friends had been published and were doing a public reading. After the reading we went to a restaurant to celebrate. Half through the dinner I had the misfortune to mention Sarai Sierra’s tragic death in Turkey. I was sad, scared and upset that this woman had been so brutally murdered in a country that I had dimmed safe to visit. A good friend, a woman, had just been working in Turkey for [Read more.]

Gender, Marriage and Sarai Sierra’ death-Part 2

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Feb 262013
 
Gender, Marriage and Sarai Sierra’ death-Part 2

Reading Time: 6 minutes  Gender, Marriage and Sarai Sierra’ death Part 2 This is the second in a series of three posts about how Sarai Sierra’s tragedy connects to issues of gender and human rights within marriage. Read the first post here. In the previous post: ————————— “So you are saying that we just got to let our wife, the mother of our children to go to a country that’s dangerous and disappear, just because she wants to, and we just ‘let’ her?” “I am saying that a woman is an independent adult and no one ‘lets’ her or ‘allows’ her. I am not saying that as a couple you cannot talk it over. To say that you ‘don’t allow’ her is to transgress her rights. However, if you talk it over and tell her that you don’t feel it’s safe and you both…” “So it’s a matter of semantics!” the young man snapped. ——————— Argumentation: Men’s sparring Oh, I know this path so well. I repeated it for decades in endless arguments in tables where men ruled. I know the old, patriarchal techniques [Read more.]

Presence is the true holiday present

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Dec 242012
 
Presence is the true holiday present

Reading Time: 3 minutes Family Holiday Ceremony  Presence is the True Holiday Present The other day in the elevator I asked a neighbor how Christmas was going. Oh boy! His shoulders slumped down with weight and he made a grimace. ~ “That bad?” I asked. ~ “Everyone’s expecting gifts and things are not like they were,” he said. I’m going to share with you what I told him… and a bit more. Our PRESENCE is the present. We need to come back to the sacredness of the holidays as a celebration of our life, of our sacred families, of love and giving. But giving is not about buying, rushing around, consuming. It is about coming together in a ceremony to celebrate each other’s presence in our life. I’ve done ceremonies with families where the kids grow up and years later they still remember that ceremony when their parents, siblings and cousins shared with them how much they meant to them, the gifts that they saw in them, gave them thanks for being in their lives and name what their presence brought to their lives. [Read more.]

For Whom the Freedom Bell Tolls?

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Jul 212012
 
For Whom the Freedom Bell Tolls?

Reading Time: 10 minutes Choosing Freedom When personal freedom matters to you, what happens when freedom is a tough choice? This is an inspiring real life story about choosing freedom in the face of fear. Today I had an article planned, but I want instead to share what is going on in my life right now in the hope that it helps you look at any crisis, emergency or tough choice you may be facing now with new insights. In my case, the choice I am facing is about freedom.My first value is freedom. But values often get challenged by crisis, so that we must choose them or loose them. These past two weeks I’ve not been able to finish my subscribers’ newsletter because someone I love needed me very much. It’s my aunt Fanny. Two weeks ago the neighbor who looks after her could not find her by nightfall, so she called us. My aunt was missing!My Freedom Shero Everybody has their childhood heroes and sheroes. Aunt Fanny was mine. When I was a little girl, I looked up to aunt Fanny as [Read more.]

The Endless Ink

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Aug 302011
 
The Endless Ink

Reading Time: 5 minutes Inspirational Story about Creating Abundance This is a true story. It is a story about the abundance that exists all around us. It is also a story about miracles and means. It is a story to help you place your attention in the cornucopia of plenty that exists in your life right now, even under the financial challenges you may be facing. This story tells you how to starve scarcity and and make abundance grow. The other alternative is to feed your places of scarcity until they grow, eating away your abundance. Which do you prefer? When things are tough Some time ago our black and white laser printer died. It was a good Panasonic printer, and I have relied on that brand for many of my electronics. It had printed our beautiful poems. It had carried our babies when they were crawling (I’m talking about our books, don’t be thinking we put the children in the printer!)): It had nurtured our dreams as we planned and strategized.  It had been a loyal printer. But it came to its final [Read more.]

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