The New Moon Sister Circles (for women only) provide a safe and sacred space each month to honor our connection to the Earth, to the cycles of the Moon, to our deepest selves and to each other. We do that through personal sharing, meditation, movement and magical play, with a particular emphasis on reclaiming and healing the Divine Feminine in ourselves and Society. Circles begin at 6:30pm and the cost is $15 for Fourth U members and $21 for non-members. Call Deborah Roth at 212-665-9660 for further details.
August 12: “I Am What I Am” – led by Rev. Jill Bowden
A Wisconsin farm kid quickly learns to be very quiet during the radio-reported noon “Corn Report.” The noon news was important to my parents during those pre-transistor, pre-Walkman (if you remember the pre-cursors of today’s personal sound systems,) pre-iPod, pre-MP-3 days. There were no cell phones, and parents were not plugged in to their Blackberrys and their PDAs, and so the noon news was our contact with the outside world. The Corn Report, followed by the Hog Report – all news from the Chicago Corn Exchange – followed faithfully by farmers everywhere, decided the family’s financial standing for the year. If corn was up, did you sell it and then have to sell off the hogs because you had sold off the feed, or did you feed it to the hogs, hoping the price of hogs would go up? Farming is always a gamble like that. Continue Reading »
