While going through a self-guided retreat last month, this book,
The Mother's Song by Meinrad Crighead was quoted. I am so glad it snagged my attention enough to request it from the library. It is an unforgettable book filled with the creative art and prose of the author.
From the Introduction: I draw and paint from my own myth of personal origin. Each painting I make begins from some deep source where my mother and grandmother, and all my fore-mothers, still live; it is as if the line moving from pen or bush coils back to the original matrix. Sometimes I feel like a cauldron of ripening images where memories turn into faces and emerge from my vessel.
The retreat was Women's Christmas Retreat
Illuminating the Threshold by Jan Richardson. I have shared this retreat and link with several as it was very encouraging for me. Here is Jan's explanation of Women's Christmas Retreat:
Did you know that in some parts of the world, Epiphany (January 6,
which brings the Christmas season to a close) is celebrated as Women's
Christmas? Originating in Ireland, where it is known as Nollaig na mBan,
Women's Christmas began as a day when the women, who often carried the
domestic responsibilities all year, took Epiphany as an occasion to
enjoy a break and celebrate together at the end of the holidays.
Whether your domestic duties are many or few, Women’s Christmas is a
good time to pause and take a break from whatever has kept you busy and
hurried in the past weeks or months. As the Christmas season ends, this
is an occasion both to celebrate with friends and also to spend time in
reflection before diving into the responsibilities of this new year.
It's become a tradition for me to create a retreat that you can use
for Women's Christmas—or anytime you're in need of a space of
reflection. This year's retreat is titled "Illuminating the Threshold." I
have a lingering fascination with thresholds, those betwixt and between
places that emerge when we have left what is familiar but have not
arrived at what lies ahead. This retreat offers an invitation for you to
engage your own thresholds and do some reflecting and dreaming there.
Here is her website if you are interested in downloading the retreat:
http://sanctuaryofwomen.com/blog/
You will also be impressed with her style of art and poetry.
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