https://vimeo.com/68106009 In this brief conversation with author and speaker Marilyn Steele, the spirit, energy and vision of feminine power and wisdom are evoked through music, images of nature, and words. Welcome to the viewer seeking inspiration and healing for self and the world. For those interested in a video of their own, contact Eric Pomert, Life Story Video Editor.
Last night I dreamed I was carrying a green garden hose for miles across a flat landscape of golden plains. First I had to get out of the city, wind my way around cars stuck in a traffic jam. Then a long, long walk, the hose streaming water until I get to my destination - a clinic, a conference of writers and healers. Someone helps me find a large container to collect the water. Mary Oliver's poem comes to mind: "You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk [...]
What a glorious sunny day for May Day. Wildflowers everywhere - brilliant yellows, pale blues, fiery reds. Cherry blossoms shower their soft pink petals on the trail as I run around Stow Lake in Golden Gate Park. Turtles sun themselves on raised logs. Two families of Canada geese with their gaggles of goslings glide in the water alongside sea gulls and ducks. One gosling is so excited to be in the water, she keeps bobbing and splashing up and down in the water, then speeding up to rejoin her family. That's the way [...]
"You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world, for the fire makes a circle of light for everyone, and then no one outside learns of you. But the darkness pulls in everything: Shapes and fires, animals and myself, How easily it gathers them!- Powers and people- And it is possible a great energy Is moving near me. I have faith in nights." Rilke, trans. Robert Bly Like the darkness of the womb, like the land of po in Hawaiian cosmology, it is [...]
Recently I had this dream:At the large 1908 house where I raised the kids, there is a women’s writing conference going on. Some women stroll around the garden, or sit in the courtyard under the shiny dark green leaves and glossy white blossoms of the large magnolia tree. Inside there are others, writing in groups, talking. A circle is going on. A writer and teacher friend of mine comes over and tells me:“There is something on the front porch that you should see. She has a lot of stories to tell.” I go [...]
"You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world, for the fire makes a circle of light for everyone, and then no one outside learns of you. But the darkness pulls in everything: Shapes and fires, animals and myself, How easily it gathers them!- Powers and people- And it is possible a great energy Is moving near me. I have faith in nights." - Rilke, trans. Robert Bly Today is the shortest day of the year, and the longest night. These three days [...]
Winter birds have gathered by the hundreds along the shoreline. Black and grey coots skitter across the sparkling sea preparing to lift into the sky. A long string of Western grebes and ducks are sprinkled among the flickers of light on the surface like pepper on a sugar frosted silver cake. In the midst of all this beauty, my heart turns to the recent killing of twenty first graders in Newtown, Connecticut. To the parents of those children, the families of the heroic teachers and staff who did their best to protect those [...]
On my deck overlooking the water, the orange and pink abutilon have re-blossomed, their brilliant heads hanging like bells over the tall terra cotta pot. Weeks ago they looked deader than dead. Leaves blackened with spots that almost covered all the green. On closer inspection, the tiniest of white specks. What was wrong? Was there any hope? I found a helper, Felix, at the local nursery. Tattooed from neck to arms to ankles, I figured he had an interesting story, a tough life, some time ago. And he knows and loves plants. "Yes, [...]
“We must come to the end before a new beginning can come to us.” - Helene Cixous This is a singular moment, a time of transition for the world. The old order dissolves. The world is hungry for a vision, a new planetary mythology. It is emerging from women like you, carrying the energy of the dynamic, transformative Feminine, or what I call The Wild feminine. The map of the psyche and the map of the world are mirror images of the same story. When we restore and reclaim the wild and sacred [...]
Dear All - For my inaugural post, here's your invitation to my open studio in Sausalito on Saturday, September 1 - Monday, September 3. From 11am - 6pm, I'll be at the studio to visit and share my work. If you're in town, do come by! Friends and family welcome. ICB Art Studio - 480 Gate Five Road - 259 D - Sausalito, CA 94965 Visit my art page to view some paintings online! Take care, Marilyn