Unmasked: Women Write
About Sex and Intimacy After Fifty
What does a love life look like for women after fifty? Lover
or no? Online dating or no? Love of friends eclipsing lover love? You’ll find
fifty-three views in a new anthology, "Unmasked: Women Write About Sex and
Intimacy After Fifty." I’m honored to be included, writing that I first posted
here on Feral Mom, “Sex, Hammers and Self-Care in a House with Three Children.”
Editor Marcia Meier will give a brief introduction, followed by those of us reading
from the book: readers Lisa Rizzo, Barbara Rockman, Renate Golden, and yours
truly.
Editor Marcia Meier answers a few questions about Unmasked over on the SDWI blog.
Come out if you can tomorrow night (Saturday, October 7th) to San Diego Writers, Ink over at
Liberty Station 5-7 p.m. for the reading and signing and refreshments.
Trusting your
Healer’s Compass: Amazon Wisdom Keeper Van Tuyl
As I keep working slow and steady on writing prose about an
Illinois commune I lived on as a child, I’m reading memoirs voraciously—for
inspiration, for strength, for joy. I met Loraine Van Tuyl on-line last year and
fell in love with her forthcoming memoir, “Amazon Wisdom Keeper: A
Psychologist’s Memoir of Spiritual Awakening,” which comes out at the end of
this month with She Writes Press.
In “Amazon Wisdom Keeper,” Loraine anchors us in the
physical landscape of her native Suriname, the fertile green and heat a
backdrop for her childhood experiences and family lineage of teachings (a
quality of light and heat that prepares Loraine for later trials when her
deepest visions are questioned). To escape the turmoil of the changing political
power-scape in Suriname, Loraine’s family moves to the United States where adolescence’s
lessons arrive through Western belief systems. Intuition’s early lessons came
through love, and later, through college psychology classes with their fixed
ways of approaching healing as well as spiritual groups with rigid
understandings of the ways to access healing power.
The gift of Amazon Wisdom Keeper is the intimate look at the
very push and pull of different ways of believing and healing and what it takes
to undergo rejection and somehow find the strength to trust one’s internal
compass to navigate life, to know when to stay, when to let go, when to change
mentors or groups. Van Tuyl reminds us that in our deepest moments of personal
and spiritual rejection lie the seeds for self–love. We learn that by confronting
our obstacles and trusting the process, we have the potential to awaken beautiful parts
of ourselves otherwise left untested and dormant. Thank you so much Loraine,
for your beautiful book. For more information, here is a link to a short video about Amazon Wisdom Keeper and a link to Loraine's page on Goodreads.
Keep your eye out for an interview with Loraine later this month--I will post the link here when it is live.
**October 19 update: Here is the link to the interview: Amazon Wisdom Keeper and Spiritual Awakening.
**October 19 update: Here is the link to the interview: Amazon Wisdom Keeper and Spiritual Awakening.
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