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Day Eight: Keep the Stories Alive
Day Eight: Keep the Stories Alive
Now is the moment to put pen to paper, fingertip to key — to learn and practice our craft, to open ourselves to the music arriving from outside as well as rising from within us, in search of a welcoming. ~Sawnie Morris, poet
(Day 8 of 30 days of writing. All of the 30 days are posted on Medium or go to this link and purchase the entire e-book for 99 cents. The Sacred Feminine: Tuning into Your Personal Power. 30 days of Writing and Reflecting)
In Week One, we tuned into some of the qualities of the feminine: Feelings, Intuition, Creativity, Knowing, Body Wisdom, and Receiving. Now, on Day Eight, we will go deeper and listen. Listening with all of our senses includes the feeling state of our bodies.
The summer I was finalizing my book, Heal My Voice: An Evolutionary Woman’s Journey, I was also reading the book, Through the Flower: My Struggle as a Woman Artist by Judy Chicago, published in 1982.
In her book, Ms. Chicago shares the struggles of creating art from a woman’s perspective when all of her teachers were teaching art from a male perspective. One part of this is that the tools designed for sculpture were designed for men. In her quest, to find her female expression, she discovered that women have always been present in history, but their voices…
