Visionaries
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Features & Interviews
8 Birthing Crone: The Provocative Art
of Helen Redman Ann Kreilkamp
For half century, Helen Redman has
been making art that tracks events, both
momentous and ordinary, in the human life
cycle. Her work is a visual memoir of the flux
and flow of embodiment and identity.
22 Awestruck by Beauty: The Life & Art of Bobbie Gill Maggie Fenton
The wild arrangement of flowers, berries, greenery and twigs in front of the speaker’s podium kept drawing my eye. When I asked who had done it the answer was “Bobbi Gill.” Some said she was a spiritual director; others, that she was an artist; one intriguingly described her as a “gatherer of women.”
36 Lady Olivia: In Service to the Divine Feminine Aya Rose
In 1976, Lady Olivia (together with her brother and sister-in-law) co-founded The International Fellowship of Isis, a non-hierarchal fellowship that now includes over 30,000 members in over 125 countries. Now an ageless 93, Lady Olivia is still a force to be reckoned with.
Departments
42 Crone Poetry
Seeing in the Dark; Survival; Above the Small Lake, the Moon; Winter; More; Dancing with Green Bees; Becoming Visible at Sixty-Eight
50 Crone Action
Raging Grannies: Peace, Protest & Performance. PLUS Crone Caws: A Veteran Speaks Out on War & Peace
60 Loss & Transformation
Finding My Parents; Helen’s Bloomers; In Memory of Ruth
70 Crone Lives
Helen Thayer: “Quitting is Not an Option”
76 Crone Encounters
Preguntale a la Luna — Ask the Moon; Image of My Grandmother; An Open Letter to She Who Understands
86 Crone Circles
Colorado Crone Circle of Wise Women
112 Crone Eye - Reviews from Our Readers
122 Crone Correspondence - Letters from Our Readers
Columns
1 Focus Ann Kreilkamp
89 Living the Shift Joan Bird
93 Crone Reflections Rita Bresnahan
95 Family Crone Connie Dawson
97 Crone Sexuality Pat Hanson
101 Wise Health Christine Page
103 (Not So) Strictly Speaking Lindy High
105 Eco-Crone Marian Van Eyk McCain
107 Croning Patricia Leyden
109 Creature Comforts Lee Pelham Cotton
125 Coda Anne Newkirk Niven
