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For the Love of Robin Hood and the Minotaur, Part One
From My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem (pgs. 10-12) “In...
Gail Seavey
Aug 29, 2022
All Snakes Bite
“There is a mama snake,..a daddy snake…a brother snake…a sister snake….a baby snake….and all snakes bite.” – Children’s game My children...
Gail Seavey
Sep 11, 2021
Cosmic Teachers
I have no instinct when it comes to yoga. I can’t imitate a pose – an asana - by watching someone else do it. I cannot quickly move...
Gail Seavey
Aug 12, 2021
Lounging on Shesha, the Cosmic Snake
I meditate with some gentle yoga every morning. Different images appear to me during mediation that I do well to pay attention to. The...
Gail Seavey
Jul 28, 2021
Gratitude to Carol P. Christ December 20, 1945 - July 14, 2021
“I believe that women’s spiritual quest(s). …are drawing all of us to accept finitude and change, to live in and through it, without...
Gail Seavey
Jul 27, 2021
Snake Rescue
“Evolve or die.” – Lilly Tomlin My husband Jim used to say “I never change,” but of course he did. For instance, he was an angry young...
Gail Seavey
Jul 13, 2021
Sometimes a Snake is Just a Snake
Sometimes a little snake can turn into a sea serpent that takes you on a transformative journey. Sometimes a snake is just a snake. ...
Gail Seavey
Jun 21, 2021
Art School & the Neolithic: Part II
In the eyes of Norm S., the head of the ceramic department, the informal crit with the only woman sculpture TA was a total failure since...
Gail Seavey
May 27, 2021
Snake Handling 101
I was heavy with sadness on Mothers’ Day, grieving for my Mom. She died two years ago suffering from a dementia that had carved her down...
Gail Seavey
May 9, 2021
Playing with Snakes
Earth and water have spoken to me through both form and story. In 2004 I was facing up to a deteriorating ministry and wondering if I...
Gail Seavey
May 4, 2021
The Gloucester Sea Serpent
“’Is it back in the deep?' 'Is it eating our sheep?'/ 'I think,' I said, 'that the serpent is playing.' " – from The Serpent Came to...
Gail Seavey
Apr 20, 2021
To Think Like a Forest
“To think like a forest…is to think in images.” – Amitav Ghosh The last time I lived on the great granite rock of Cape Ann the earth...
Gail Seavey
Apr 16, 2021
RISD and the Neolithic,
“My work is basically in the tradition of a Neolithic artist.” – Ana Mendieta, feminist performance artist/photographer, 1948-1985 During...
Gail Seavey
Apr 12, 2021
The blood of Ana Mendieta
“My art is the way I reestablish the bonds that unite me to the Universe. It is a return to the material source.” – Ana Mendieta There...
Gail Seavey
Mar 26, 2021
A Story that Lives in Me
The stories I live by choose me. The Descent of Inanna has repeatedly helped me make sense of my life, creeping into my mediations and...
Gail Seavey
Mar 15, 2021
Is There Such a Thing as a Perfect Community?
Utopia. Why is anyone interested in made-up visions of some perfect community? It’s hard enough living in this imperfect world without...
Gail Seavey
Mar 5, 2021
Understanding Different Points
When I told my younger son’s partner that I was sad because Ruth Bader Ginsberg died, she asked who Ginsberg was. I was surprised, but I...
Gail Seavey
Feb 26, 2021
Eyes and Inara’s Picture
As a child I was discouraged from acknowledging anything that disturbed the status quo such as sexism or racism, so what to do with all the
Gail Seavey
Feb 5, 2021
Light of Hope
The last time I felt this kind of hope watching an inauguration, I was sitting in a crowd (oh, to remember what sitting in a crowd felt like
Gail Seavey
Jan 21, 2021
Protect the New
Last night I dreamed that my baby was born, but someone had kidnapped it. I was desperately looking for it. When I reported the baby...
Gail Seavey
Jan 9, 2021
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