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The Queen of My Self

 Despite all of the loss associated with aging: the ability to reproduce, physical strength and agility, pigment in our hair, elasticity in our skin, our children at home, our parents, and on and on, the results of a large Gallup poll recently released has found that by almost any measure, people get happier as they…

This week’s theme is Dancing Queens. And Crones. Queen of Rock and Roll I recently saw Tina Turner’s 2008 concert, supposedly the last of her career. She was 68 years old and she took my breath away. She was backed by a bevy of beautiful young women, who, despite their gorgeous faces and figures and…

Here are some stunning Queens of a certain age, dancing from deep within their souls. These sinuous, sensual women move the way water does. Or silk charmeuse. In waves of slow flow like lava. Fiery molasses. Their ecstatic expressions are luscious. Their mature surety, intoxicating. The young women are dancing. The Queens are communing. Theirs…

This week’s theme is Dancing Queens. And Crones.To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.– Agnes De Mille I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep…

This week’s theme is Dancing Queens. And Crones. La Mariposa, Butterfly WomanBy Clarissa Pinkola Estes …To the visitors, a butterfly is a delicate thing. “O fragile beauty,” they dream. So they are necessarily shaken when out hops Maria Lujan. And she is big, really big, like the Venus of Willendorf, like the Mother of Days,…

This week’s theme is Dancing Queens. And Crones. My friend Kay is the official folklorist of Brooklyn. A couple of years ago she organized a month long Arab music festival. One of the evenings was a belly dance extravaganza, which I attended with my entire Goddess Group. I was still on my cane following my…

This week’s theme is Dancing Queens. And Crones. Talk about Electric Crones. Check out this 90-year old Red Hot Salsa Mama and start dancing! It is never too late and you are never too old. You were wild once. Don’t let them tame you. – Isadora Duncan ***Dance to feel the passion Dance to wake the…

This week I am offering my own sensual, sexual experiences as Maiden, Mother, Queen and Crone-to be. Electric Crone The brain, the mind, is said to be our most sensitive sexual organ and I have come to absolutely believe it. Time after time again in my life, it has been proven to me that being…

 This week I am offering my own sensual, sexual experiences as Maiden, Mother, Queen and Crone-to be. Red Hot Queen Mama The more competent I became in navigating and negotiating the maze of my life, the more practiced and commanding, the more self-assured I became. Feeling sure of yourself is the ultimate turn on —…

This week I am offering my own sensual, sexual experiences as Maiden, Mother, Queen and Crone-to be. The Queen of Hearts Eventually, time and the winds and storms of my maternal years weathered my once-sumptuous bloom. The galloping growth of my spring and sweet blush of my fertile summer had slowed and faded in the…
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