This post contains a video which teaches a simple process for creating your own mandalas. Scroll down to find the video. This video is accessible for my deaf and hard of hearing Friends of the Crossroads. Enjoy! Voice of Spring’s Return created by Sue O’Kieffe, Sacred Circle Mandalas I love mandalas – those intricate works [...]
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Growing Your Own Mandala
Posted in Archives #3 A Deaf Pagan Shares, Archives #4 Pagan Thoughts and Writings, Art & Literature, Creating Accessibility, Equal Communication Access, Nature, Photography, Spirituality, Video Posts on Wednesday March 23 2011 | 1 Comment »
Finding the Goddess In Every Woman
Posted in Archives #3 A Deaf Pagan Shares, Archives #4 Pagan Thoughts and Writings, Art & Literature, Empowerment, Healing, Nature, Paganism, Photography, Poetry/Prose, Spirituality, witchcraft, Women, Women's Spirituality on Tuesday March 8 2011 | 2 Comments »
Today is the 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day. As I celebrate this day, I honor the Divine Feminine in all women, and I give thanks to the Goddess for giving us Her strength, Her wisdom, Her guidance… Her love. Special thanks to “Witches Sky” for her kind permission to use her beautiful video [...]
In Celebration of Women
Posted in Archives #3 A Deaf Pagan Shares, Art & Literature, Empowerment, Poetry/Prose, Women, Women's Spirituality on Wednesday March 2 2011 | Leave a Comment »
March is Women’s History Month, and March 8th is International Women’s Day. In honor of such, I’ve decided to go back thru all of my posts over the past four years and four months (WOW! Has it really been that long?) and list some of those that focus on women-related issues. I hope that you [...]
“I Will Use These Hands to Speak Volumes…”
Posted in Archives #1 Deafness and Accessibility, Archives #3 A Deaf Pagan Shares, Creating Accessibility, Deaf/Hearing Relations, Deafness, Empowerment, Equal Communication Access, Interpreting, Sign Language on Sunday February 27 2011 | 1 Comment »
As a deaf person who grew up as a “solitaire” in an all-hearing, non-signing environment…this video made me cry. What a touching, loving, beautiful tribute to his sister. Thank you, Joshua Bennett…for sharing your heart, your soul, and your poem with us.
I Received Flowers Today…
Posted in Archives #3 A Deaf Pagan Shares, Empowerment, Ethics, Healing, Poetry/Prose, Spirituality, Women, Women's Spirituality on Thursday February 24 2011 | 2 Comments »
I received flowers today. It wasn’t my birthday or a special occasion. We had our first argument last night. During the night he said a lot of cruel things to me that really hurt. I know that he is sorry, because he sent me flowers today. I received flowers today. It wasn’t my [...]
Making My Drum
Posted in Archives #3 A Deaf Pagan Shares, Archives #4 Pagan Thoughts and Writings, Nature, Paganism, Ritual, Spirituality, witchcraft, Women's Spirituality on Wednesday February 9 2011 | 2 Comments »
Recently my friend Julie and I decided to try our hand (no pun intended!) at making our own drums. Julie was interested in possibly using them in a women’s support group she runs, and I was just curious to learn about making one…especially since I am now drum-less, thanks to the jerk who stole my [...]
CSI – The Deaf Episode (final thoughts!)
Posted in Archives #1 Deafness and Accessibility, Archives #3 A Deaf Pagan Shares, Deaf/Hearing Relations, Deafness, Equal Communication Access, Interpreting, Sign Language on Saturday February 5 2011 | 22 Comments »
Because three is one of my favorite numbers, I like to do things in threes. Thus this is my third and final post on the CSI episode featuring the Deaf actors and actresses. Overkill? Maybe – but there are a number of different topics from that show that one can focus on, and I’ve chosen [...]
CSI – The Deaf Episode (continuing thoughts)
Posted in Archives #1 Deafness and Accessibility, Archives #3 A Deaf Pagan Shares, Creating Accessibility, Deaf/Hearing Relations, Deafness, Equal Communication Access, Interpreting, Sign Language on Friday February 4 2011 | 6 Comments »
This is the second of my posts focusing on the February 3rd airing of the CSI episode on “The Two Mrs. Grissoms” featuring several Deaf actors and actresses. I put up a post on my Facebook wall asking others what they thought about the February 3rd airing of the CSI crime drama episode which featured [...]
CSI – The Deaf Episode (first thoughts)
Posted in Archives #1 Deafness and Accessibility, Archives #3 A Deaf Pagan Shares, Deaf/Hearing Relations, Deafness, Interpreting, Sign Language on Friday February 4 2011 | 8 Comments »
This is the first of a series of posts that I plan to do reflecting some of my thoughts and discussions in regards to the February 3rd showing of “The Two Mrs. Grissoms” on the crime drama CSI. I’m sure that this morning the “Deaf Grapevine” is all abuzz as folks share their thoughts on [...]
My Year Card for 2011
Posted in Archives #3 A Deaf Pagan Shares, Archives #4 Pagan Thoughts and Writings, Art & Literature, Astrology, Deaf/Pagan Relations, Divination, Magick, Paganism, Spirituality, witchcraft, Women's Spirituality on Thursday January 20 2011 | 1 Comment »
This is the first in a series of posts I plan to write about Tarot Year Cards, and particularly my own year card for 2011 – which happens to be The Hanged Man. While working with my tarot cards one evening earlier this month, I decided to employ a divination method which I learned from [...]
ASL Tree
Posted in Archives #3 A Deaf Pagan Shares, Art & Literature, Creating Accessibility, Deaf/Hearing Relations, Deaf/Pagan Relations, Deafness, Empowerment, Equal Communication Access, Interpreting, Poetry/Prose, Sign Language, Women on Saturday January 15 2011 | 6 Comments »
In a previous post, I explained how my Word of the Year for 2011 is ROOTS. This will be an on-going theme in my blog this year, and I plan to create several posts through-out the year which revolve around this theme. Some of those posts will focus on connecting to my roots as a [...]
The Power of Roots
Posted in Archives #3 A Deaf Pagan Shares, Divination, Empowerment, Ethics, Healing, Magick, Spirituality, Universal Issues, Women, Women's Spirituality on Tuesday January 4 2011 | 17 Comments »
My friend Quinn over at QuinnCreative recently wrote a blog post about a Word of the Year. Neither Quinn nor I are fans of New Year’s resolutions. Let’s face it…they are hard to make, and easy to break. Or to be more accurate – easy to come up with, but tough as leather to maintain. [...]
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