Category Archives: Creativity
Greetings for 2012
During the darkest weeks of this winter season, I stepped back to take in the fullness of the past year. The reflection surfaced gratitude, personally and professionally. As days began to lengthen, I retreated to Trout Lake in the Hiawatha … Continue reading
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Tagged Colleen Deatsman, Gone Wired Cafe, healing, Marycela, Quakerism, shaminism
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A Week with Roots
The week’s an interesting one, by its end having visited my hometown of DeWitt twice. This frequency is rare, without immediate family residing there since the mid-1990s. My second trip comes this Thursday, November 17, for a reading of Circle. … Continue reading
It’s a New Dey
Dey of the Phoenix is my individual website, where I publish my words as well as pass on events. Yet within its domain name (deyofthephoenix.com), I also maintain web spaces for the grassroots endeavor The HerStories Project and The Writing … Continue reading
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Invocation of Light
…I greet the black morning and its bright stars, frost pinching my nose, quiet filling my ears. Chiron, a stray dog into a fourth week of fostering, stretches his legs in the yard. We return to the warmth of the … Continue reading
Collaborations with the Women’s Center of Greater Lansing
This Saturday, August 27, from 10am to 2pm at the Lansing City Market, I am holding an information table for the Women’s Center of Greater Lansing and my forthcoming poetry collection “Circle…Home.” Stop by and say hi! There will be … Continue reading
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Tagged Lansing City Market, Women's Center of Greater Lansing
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Between Butterfly Wings
In the past month, it was an honor to be part of of 16 Days Lansing, a program inspired by the international campaign 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence initiated in 1991 by the Center for Women’s Global Leadership … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Sexuality&Gender, Spirituality
Tagged 16 Days, activism, arts, gender violence, healing, Lansing, transformation
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Cross the Border
How do we change anything? Anything pertaining to the injustices of this world, in our communities and relationships. Do we take on the system? Do we engage our loved ones? Some of us gravitate toward one or the other; few … Continue reading
Winter Fruit
I look out the second-story window of my home and smile at the snow atop bushes, across lawns, streaking rooftops. I am grateful for this Michigan winter, the season I missed most while in Belgium. Normally Belgian winters are mild, … Continue reading
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HerStories: March 2010
I’ve named a new endeavor of mine The HerStories Project, which kicks off in March to celebrate stories about women during Women’s History Month. If you live in or are near the greater Lansing area of Michigan, be sure to … Continue reading
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