I just rediscovered my grandmother's recipe for Sicilian pizza,

old-country style

something you'll never find in an American pizzeria

a unique old-world taste

I had not tasted

since she died 20 years ago.

When I bit into it, childhood among my big Sicilian extended family flooded back to life

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Alessandra Belloni is a percussionist, singer, dancer, and folklorist from the region of Apulia in southern Italy. Her art is centered on the dance indigenous to Apulia, the tarantella.


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(This is the sort of thing French women send each other in e-mails. There are different lists in English titled "100 good reasons to be a woman," but here is a whole other set I've translated with 100 more things you may not have read before. Gender stereotyping aside, I have to admit I really got a kick out of this list... Guys, don't mind us, it' ( Read more... )

I came across an old copy of Womanspirit: A Guide to Women's Wisdom by Hallie Austen Iglehart in Second Story Books at Dupont Circle. Published in 1983, it was one of the early works to integrate feminist spirituality with the feminist movement, after the author had been involved in both spiritual yoga and feminism and felt torn between them-- ( Read more... )

I made a donation in honor of my mother to MADRE, an international human rights organization. They will send a Mother's Day card (a bit late, but I just found out about it yesterday) to my mother and tell her I donated in her name. I included a note: "Recognizing our global connectedness with women of the world."

A simple declaration I translated into many languages in honor of International Women's Day.

Ainu: menoko ku ne.
Akan: me yε baa.
Albanian: unë jam një grua.
Amharic: ené sét näñ.
Arabic: ana imra’ah.
Aramaic: ena nesha.
Armenian: yes mi kin em.
Assamese: mai tirotā haom.
Aymara: naya xa warmi twa.
Azerbaijani: mən gadınam. ( Read more... )

Woman is body
Body is earth
Earth is nature
Nature is matter

Woman is earth
Earth is body
Body is matter
Matter is nature

Woman is nature
Nature is earth
Earth is matter
Matter is body

Woman is matter
Matter is earth
Earth is nature
Nature is body

Warm, soft, wet, alive
Wild and powerful
Feel Her touch
Touch Her
Love Her

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Central Asian women's poetry series #7 ( Read more... )

I feel a strong intuition that Vicofertile Woman is my ancestor.* I want to make contact. I have her picture on my altar. I want to visit her world. Don't want to wait until Samhain.

She was buried with the Goddess statue cradled to her breast.


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As a woman of faith, trying to understand what makes me tick here.
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