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[Optimistic Crone]

44. New to DU, checking out the different communities.

Disclaimer: I am learning to write and am using this opportunity for an audience to develop my voice and skill set. If you want to stop reading right now that is fine, no hard feelings. mmo

Hello icymist,

It looks like you are the only one participating in this thread. That makes me think this DU community is not flooded with folks interested in ancient wisdom or pagan spirituality. I find that disappointing. I assumed that there would be a bunch of spiritually open and diverse belief participants in such a progressive digital community.

I am a proud crone, as you can tell by my user name. I have been living in the almost wilderness for the last 27 years with my husband and family. We are homesteaders and live in a beautiful progressive enclave surrounded by farmers, loggers and other resource heavy light thinking segments of our society. We, our local community. mostly is focused on living with simple material needs and caring for this beautiful biosphere we live in and expressing ourselves creatively and with open minds.

My local sisters here have been gathering as women and celebrating life and its various phases and challenges together. We are very eclectic as a 'spiritual' practicing group, borrowing from many traditions. Most of us are crones now but recently some mom's have asked us to put together a 'celebration, welcoming their adolescent daughters to the Sisterhood. We aren't sure exactly what we will include in this celebration, because their girls have not grown up in as alternative a lifestyle as our children did, and we certainly don't want to scare them off with our, some would say, excessive personal freedom mind, body and spirit practices.

We have also come to a time in our lives when our loved ones are beginning to end their lives here in this experience of living in a skin suit with Consciousness, so are having to relearn and create new ways of dealing with the dieing process and all that that entails in conscious ways, as well as addressing the many facets of dealing with the body of a loved one.

Well, I just ran out of steam for the evening. Take good care, mmo