Currents May 2024
I recently returned home from a beautiful trip to Florida. Rather than going with the purpose of sightseeing and visiting various amusement parks, a group of like-minded women and I…
Powerful Influence
There is no influence so powerful as that of a mother. Sarah Josepha Hale How can we be aware of the impact and intent of the media that is being…
A Woman’s Soul
As we honor our feminine biology and procreative power, it is vital that we recognize that we are so much more than our physical bodies. Poet Carol Lynn Pearson maintains…
Building Nests
I recently spent a few minutes procrastinating – or resting maybe? – by watching a video of birds building a nest in a birdhouse someone had set up with a…
Creating Beauty From Ashes
“Creating beauty from ashes,” has always been a figurative encouragement for me to be optimistic amidst difficult times. Then I met Karen Lynn Ingalls. Her story redefined and deepened that…
Synergistic Sound – Creating Music That Moves
Have you ever attended a live musical performance where the sound is the focus? No hollering crowd, no enthusiastic karaoke participants, just the pure harmonies of voices or instruments that…
On a Solar Eclipse, Taylor Swift, and Other Reasons to Look to the Sky
It is cold in April, especially in Utah where the day could start in sun and end in snow, and it was cold the morning the sun disappeared, when I…
Visible Children?
I first noticed the missing children when I was expecting my first child. I’d always wanted to sew an infant’s blessing gown when I had a daughter, and the time…
Currents May 2023
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. Abraham Lincoln This quote has long been a favorite of mine. I appreciate the sacrifices that…
The Power of Womanhood and the Law of Witnesses
Recently I was reading the book “I Am Malala.” It is the memoir of a young woman who was shot by militants for advocating for the rights of girls in…
An Awareness of Feeling
It’s generally accepted that women have a greater capacity to connect by feeling. I think it starts with the hormones managing our bodies and the systems therein; ebbing and flowing…
On Radical Domesticity
“The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.” Madeleine L’Engle I have been many things in my life. I have taught orchestra to…