Peace, Community
HAS “CELEBRATING DIVERSITY” DEVOLVED INTO “IDENTITY POLITICS”
Excerpt:
“Usually I’m all for non-binary approaches to life, realizing that life is much more colorful than merely black and white. But there’s something about the LGBTQ movement, or whatever it calls itself now, that just doesn’t sit well within me.”
Ann Kreilkamp
Peace, Community
THE GRANDMOTHERS’ DANCE
Excerpt:
“We begin to dance, slowly round and round, hearts and feet entraining to the drumming, thirty women in a circle, arms around each other, no beginning, no ending, left foot, left foot, left foot, entering our left sides, thinning that veil between the visible and the invisible, entranced.”
Ann Kreilkamp
Peace, Community
BUILDING THE SNOW CASTLE
Excerpt:
“I seek to understand how communities work and don't work, their tendency to become either too structured or to degenerate into chaos. I am also fascinated with the underlying invisible but very real dynamics which give each community its unique identity.”
Ann Kreilkamp
Peace, Community
HARMONIC EMERGENCE
Excerpt:
“I begin by placing a point in the middle of the page, symbolizing earth, as a heavenly body. I trace concentric circles around it: the planets, their orbits, as spheres of influence, dimensions of understanding. Our task on earth, I say, is to expand our consciousness, attune to larger and larger space/time fields.”
Ann Kreilkamp
Peace, Community
IS THE LADY A TYGER?
Excerpt:
“I often practice this sort of witnessing of my experience, as a sort of controlled schizophrenia . . . To develop the fair witness within is to gradually dismantle the automatic mechanical internal program. It’s to learn how to think for oneself.”
Ann Kreilkamp
Peace, Community
WORLD PEACE BEGINS WITHIN ME
Excerpt:
“I remember the day that I stood at my sink, peeling carrots, and actually quieting myself enough internally to notice a subtle current of anxiety running through my nervous system. This was the very first time I had ever stilled my mind enough to notice it!”
Ann Kreilkamp