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The Queen of My Self

Several of my recent posts have been about the Self, including “What Exactly is the Self?” in which I wrote, “The Self is the sum of all of our parts, and holistically, it is greater than the sum of all of our parts. The fluid Self transcends time and space, expanding and shape-shifting, changing and…

by Sister Joan Chittister For a period of time, I drove from Cleveland to Erie on a fairly regular basis, a distance of about 100 miles. Time after time, I put the car on automatic pilot and headed for home, nothing but straight road between me and the priory. Except for one thing. Every time…

by followers of The Queen of My Self Facebook Page What I have seen very clearly, right before my eyes over the years, is that women can indeed mature to very advanced ages, while staying lively and vital and full of fire and spunk. My great aunts and distant cousins twice removed were pistols. They…

By Karen Ethelsdattar I want you to look at yourself in the mirror & say “& God created Woman & she is good” I want you to look at yourself in the mirror & say “God is a Woman” I want you to look at yourself in the mirror & say “I am God’s Daughter”…

By Anne Lamott I was at a wedding Saturday with a lot of women in their 20s and 30s in sexy dresses, their youthful skin aglow. And even though I was 20 or 30 years older, a little worse for wear, a little tired and overwhelmed by the loud music, I was smiling. I smiled…

I am not a Crone. I was not a Crone on my 50th birthday. I was not a Crone when my periods were officially declared over after thirteen months of no shows. I was not a Crone at my second Saturn return at the age of 56 or thereabouts. Nor am I a Crone today…

Despite the rude awakenings, the unsettling physical and emotional chaos of midlife and all of its frightful, presumed ramifications, an amazing number of women find this stage to be the most personally fulfilling and satisfying of their lives so far. A recent Gallup survey of women aged fifty to sixty-five revealed that fifty-one percent of…

Perhaps nowhere in history were women held in higher standing and regard than in Mama Africa, the birthplace of humanity and the world’s first great civilizations, with its preponderance of matriarchal and matrilineal societies. “You know that in our country there were even matriarchal societies where women were the most important element,” writes Amilcar Cabral,…

By Sister Joan Chittister From The Gift of Years: Growing Older Gracefully “I am luminous with age,” Meridel Le Sueur wrote. Her words give us pause, make us think, call us to the bar of judgment. The truth is that older people tend to come in two flavors — the sour ones and the serene ones.…

By Shiloh Sophia We raise up our hands in praise  
and in petition. Open up our hearts that we might hear 
Divine guidance flowing through to us 
and through us to others and earth. We have lost our way as you can see 
and it seems a miracle is in order, 
and we know you…
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