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| The Hungry Soul: Woman to Woman |
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"There's burning that goes with joy, and there's burning that goes with annihilation. One is the fire of transformation, the other is the fire of decimation only. It is the fire of transformation we want. But many women give up the red shoes and agree to become too cleaned up, too nice, too compliant to someone else's way of seeing the world. We give our joyful red shoes to the destructive fire when we digest values, propagandas, and philosophies wholesale, psychological ones included. The red shoes are burned to ashes when we paint, act, write, do, be in any way that causes our lives to be diminished, weakening our vision, breaking our spirit bones.
Then a woman's life is overcome by pallor, for she is hambre del alma, a starved soul. All she wants is her deep life back. All she wants are those handmade red shoes. The wild joy that these represent might have been burnt in the fire of disuse, or the fire of devaluing one's own work. They might have been burnt in the flames of self-imposed silence."
Excerpt from Women Who Run With the Wolves
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Contents
- The Mammogram
Memories and inner thoughts of a woman waiting for her yearly mammogram by Patricia A. Burke - Body and Soul: Explorations in Healing Sexual Trauma
Healing the fear of the "Feminine Principle" by learning to trust the sensate wisdom of our bodies by Patricia A. Burke - Sacred Images of "Vessel"
Two selections from Maine poet Irene King Howe.
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