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ELDERWOMAN
The Elderwoman
Website is just one
of a growing number of online resources for women in the second half of
life. Here is a selection of links that I hope you will find useful and
interesting.
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Jean
Shinoda Bolen, author of Goddesses
in Older Women (a must-read book for
all elderwomen) and Crones
Don't Whine, has a web site which
links women of all ages, all over the world through the
Million Circles
project. www.jeanshinodabolen.com |
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Brooke Medicine Eagle, author of White
Buffalo Woman Comes Singing and The Last Ghost Dance runs wisewoman workshops.
See her web site at
www.medicine-eagle.com |
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Angeles Arrien, author of The
Nine Muses, The
Four-Fold Way, Signs
of Life and The
Tarot Handbook has produced tapes about the aging process
and a new book entitled The
Second Half of Life. Check out her web site at www.angelesarrien.com |
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Jane Clitheroe is a workshop leader, photographer and 'clutter
consultant'. She lives and works at Coburns Farm in Somerset,
England, where she offers a peaceful and beautiful space for art,
crafts, workshops, women's retreats, and a year-long training in
'hearth eldership' based on Marian's book Elderwoman.
www.healingspace.org.uk
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Ann Baylay and her colleagues run elderwoman workshops in New Zealand.
Click here
to go to
Ann's section of the Elderwoman Website.
The
Elderwomen’s Connection is
a weekend event organised by Women Of Wisdom in New
Zealand.
It will be held the first weekend of Mar 2007 (Fri 2nd-Sun4th)
at the Taipa Bay Resort in the Far North. The goal is to
provide a forum where Elderwomen can
meet and share wisdom, life experiences and the celebration of the
3rd Stage of their lives. Women of all ages are
welcome..
We will offer workshop experiences, ideas, discussion and connection
time in a safe and supportive environment. We encourage Elderwomen to
embrace an enjoyable, productive 3rd age, a time
of ever
increasing wisdom. Our website is www.womenofwisdom.org.nz
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Crones
Counsel - third age women from all over the USA and elsewhere,
who gather together once a year, usually in the autumn, to share
stories, dance, sing, drum and learn, and to honour and celebrate old
age. www.cronescounsel.org |
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Go to wise woman Bayla's
website www.croning.org
to
read her eloquent words about the 'croning' process and see her
creative ideas for ceremonies which honour this special rite of
passage - oh and while you're there, check out her beautiful gourds.
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The
Grange, a Georgian country house in ten acres of grounds in
Shropshire, England, is the setting for three day retreats entitled
'Women Exploring the Second Half of Life'.
www.thegrange.uk.com
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'Crone, Wise Woman, Elder'
- a website created especially for women
of mid-life and beyond. Has comprehensive reading lists, lots of
interesting links to explore, and a chat room too.
www.cwwe.org
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Crones in
Los Angeles
Click on www.angelcitycrones.org.
to meet this lively bunch (and to see links to other local, crone
groups).
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Birthing the Crone
'Menopause & Aging through an Artist's Eyes'
'The Beauty of Old'
Visit artist Helen Redman's wonderful website
at www.birthingthecrone.com
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Take
a look at graphic designer Cate Kerr's unusual website with
special crone pages, reading lists and links to lots of other good
crone sites. Click here to go straight to her 'Crone Pages'
(but
you might enjoy browing through the rest of her mysterious and
enchanted webspace as well). www.geocities.com/kerrdelune/crone_pages.html |
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I love
Sandra Stanton's site 'THE GODDESS IN WORLD MYTHOLOGY.' Sandra
has painted every goddess you could think of and posted all the
paintings on her site, each accompanied by a full explanation. What an
opus! What I especially love about her images is that she uses live
models for all of them. So these are real, living, breathing women, not
stylized 'beauties.' And that is so very appropriate. For what is so
different about the Goddess is that we don't worship her - we embody
her and live her.
You will
find Sandra's home page at:www.goddessmyths.com |
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Women of Wisdom is an internationally recognized organization that
provides diverse and innovative programs offering women opportunities
for personal growth and transformation, including an annual conference
on women’s spirituality held each February in Seattle,
Washington.
www.womenofwisdom.org |
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A group
of elderly women who call themselves 'The Great Council of
Grandmothers' appeared to Sharon McErlane one day as she was walking
her dog.
"The
present imbalance of energy on earth has placed all life in
danger," the women declared. "It is time to return balance, and
for this, women must lead."
Meet
Sharon and hear, through her, the words of the Grandmothers, at
www.grandmothersspeak.com
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Crone
Chronicles magazine - the first magazine specifically for crones
- is no longer being printed, but the website gets better and better.
It is now more of an 'e-zine.' All the previous issues are archived,
and there are some good links to other elderwoman sites.
www.cronechronicles.com |
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Would
you like to
meet an unusual and wonderfully 'green' elderwoman from Adelaide, South
Australia ?
Go
to Margaret
Rainbow
Web's
site at
www.users.on.net/~arachne/index.html
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Exploring what we think, know and imagine about growing old in the 21st
Century. AGING HORIZONS BULLETIN reports from Canada on current
research, and highlights people, best practices and resources from
around the world that inform and inspire.
Visit
www.AgingHorizons.com
Click here to read the 'Aging Horizons'
interview with Marian.
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UnconventionalWoman.com: a free resource website for women over 50.
Especially for single women, and for the single woman in all of us. . .
. Not the woman who's looking for love, but the one who's looking for
her LIFE |
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Pauline
Le Bel
honors the archetype of the Wise Old Woman in her one-woman show: When
the Grandmothers Speak, a weaving of song, poetry,
dance and improvisation which portrays old age not as a failure, but
as a ripening juicy, wise, and prophetic time for women and men.
Pauline's CD, Dancing with the Crone, a
tapestry of world beat, Celtic and gypsy music, and African chant is
available from: www.suncoastarts.com/paulinelebel.html
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Music
from Australia
The
inimitable, one and only Anique Radiant Heart
sings
songs of the Goddess in a voice that truly was made in Heaven. Check
out her website at: www.herwill.net
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On
the subject of
wrinkles....
Rose
Rosetree
is a face and aura reader, with a lot of interesting things to say
about those. She
has published a book entitled:
Wrinkles
are God's Make-up.
Rose
says: "As a professional Face
Reader, I'm here to remind you that vanity
procedures have consequences that doctors won't tell you.
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Click here
to go to Rose's website and read the rest of her article entitled
'BOTOX,
SCHMOTOX!'
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"A
'Moon Diary' might be the perfect gift for a woman you know. www.moondiary.com.au
Moon
Diary Products
bring you the world of Lunar Lore, Moon Stories of many cultures and
ideas for simple but powerful ritual. These are tools for the journey
that come from the wellspring of the Feminine Soul, encouraging sensory
awareness, pleasure and celebration of Feminine spirituality.
Through
this site
you can also journey into the world of the rich traditions of Women's
Performance Art as well as have your Natal Moon sign and phase
calculated and interpreted."
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'Wisdom
of the Crone': A Deck Of 54 Wisdom Cards
Each card
bears a unique image of women between the ages of fifty and one hundred.
www.wisdomofthecrone.com
'Wisdom
of the Crone'
is the perfect gift for women in all passages of life, while especially
honoring the seasoned women, women in menopause and all grandmothers.
This unique gift celebrates the goddess within while honoring all
female spiritual paths. This simple set of wisdom cards by and for wise
women allows women to be guided and inspired daily.
"When you
seek the truth, ask a wise woman." |
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Ann
Quinlan and Frederica Chapman ask: "Where do you go for retreat and
renewal? What place do you chose for that unique, previously
undiscovered experience? Let us bring you to the lush green land of
Ireland, where we will witness, explore, encircle, sing, journal, and
receive the nurturance that Ireland and our group will offer...."
If you
have ever fancied a Celtic journey, in the company of a small
group of women, led by experienced and deeply spiritual guides, check
out Ann and Frederica's luscious website at www.spiraljourneys.com |
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SeniorMatch.com
- "The premium dating
site for
senior friends and singles"
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'The
Eldership Project',
based in south Devon, England, is for both women and men. It aims to
foster positive and creative
attitudes to the later years of life and to develop the theory and
practice of eldership in society. For further details, click
on www.eldership.net
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'Fifty
and Furthermore' www.fiftyandfurthermore.com
"A site
for anyone who
believes that growing older is a time for passionate living and that
the years ahead, though they may call us to new paths, can be the best
ones yet." |
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"As you enter into the vast territory where you are called middle aged
or mature, you are looking for ways to reclaim the value of age,
rejoice in your wisdom, and turn around the negative stereotypes that
are so common in this youth oriented society. At this stage of your
life, there is an instinctive desire to redefine yourself and discover
how you want to spend the best years of your life."
www.olderwiserwomen.com
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Are
you
a
'baby boomer?'
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If you are one of the vast cohort of 'baby
boom' women, here's a website just for you ...
http://www.boomerwomenspeak.com
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BOOKS
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A 'must-read' for every woman of forty and over, is The
Watercolor Bedroom by
Daphne Stevens "....a delightful, personal, nurturing peek into one
woman's journey of creating a life that fits for her - a truly
comforting, wise Grandmother God life. A blend of A Room of One's Own
and The Woman's Comfort
Book" Daphne's website is: www.daphnestevens.com |
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Carolyn Heilbrun's book The Last Gift of Time: Life
Beyond Sixty, is a
lovely, autobiographical account of the changes - some subtle, some not
so subtle - that one woman experienced as she moved beyond her sixtieth
birthday. |
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Barbara Walker's classic study of the crone throughout history
THE
CRONE: Woman of Age, Wisdom and Power, makes fascinating -
if disturbing - reading. I think it should be compulsory reading for
every mature woman. |
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A great book on becoming a wise elder (male OR female) is Rabbi
Schachter Shalomi's From
Aging to Sage-ing.
"Older adults have unique opportunities and freedoms because of their
age. The later adult years can be a time of profound liberation, inner
growth, and spiritual development. Elders can be wisdom-keepers,
mentors, agents of evolution and healers of the planet."
Click here for more info on 'positive
aging' programs. |
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Still
Here: Embracing Aging, Changing and Dying
A wonderful, thoughtful book by the funny, wise, irrepressible, and
much-loved spiritual teacher, Ram Dass, who suffered a stroke in 1997.
Reviewer Sam Keen writes:
"Back then, when we were young and easy, Ram Dass taught us to be fully
present to our lives. Here and now we're not as young and it's not so
easy and he's still teaching us how to age with courage and compassion." |
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I found Alan Chinen's In the
Ever After: Fairy Tales and the Second Half of Life very
interesting. It has a Jungian perspective, using fairy tales from all
over
the world to illustrate the special, psychological tasks of aging. |
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Wise
Woman's Way:A Guide to Growing Older with Purpose and Passion by Berta Parrish.
A
wonderful workbook for any woman poised at the threshold
of her
'third age' and wondering how to step through it in a meaningful and
graceful fashion. A book that shows how to make the very most of this
important time of transition.
More details on Berta's Web page - http://www.wisewomansquest.com/
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Loris & Lucy's Later Life Guide by Camille Cain and Raema Hayes
'Loris and Lucy', are two Aussie women well advanced in their
post-menopausal years. They are certainly not paragons of virtue but they try.
They are an amalgam of the authors’ life experiences and those of their friends
and the wider circle of female humanity.
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Deborah Vaughn debunks the concept that only men have great adventures with her
debut novel, In Search of the Menopause Ranch. Whisked out of their normal
environment, Kimberly and the other women she meets are challenged and
enlightened by two Menopause Spirit Guides to finally discover their zest and
claim their destiny. Ancient knowledge and personal secrets combine with
startling revelations to reveal the herstory each of us should have heard a long
time ago. Reviews, reader comments and Chapter One are available on the web at:
www.menopauseranch.com
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Check out this
wonderful and comprehensive, UK-based resource site for "pausing"
women.
"MIDLIFE AND
MENOPAUSE: CHANGING BODIES, CHANGING LIVES." www.midlifeandmenopause.co.uk
"Fly with it, featherbed yourself or float through it - it's
your future!" |
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THE WOMAN
ON FIRE
This hot fiery video, by Kathleen Loughlin, is dedicated to the
proposition that women love to watch and listen to other women like
themselves grapple with ideas about the B I G things that happen to us
around the time of M E N O P A U S E because they can then continue the
process themselves... www.womanonfire.net |
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Alexandra Pope, author of :
The
Wild Genie:The Healing Power of Menstruation
runs workshops for women, both in Australia and in the UK, on the
wisdom of menstruation. Through her workshops, women learn to reclaim
the menstrual cycle as a psychospiritual process for cultivating deep
authority and wisdom. Read more about Alexandra and her work
at www.wildgenie.com |
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