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for peace to become reality . . .
Yesterday, we held our fourth monthly writing group inside Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility for pairs of women and their community mentors, many of whom travel great distance to attend this...
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mindfully drumming
My latest project at the Chittenden Correctional Facility is designing a drumming & mindfulness pilot program for the incarcerated women. Ask me if I knew A THING about the difference between a...
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name that meaning!
This week we decided to mix it up a bit during our writing group inside Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility. I mean, it’s great to have a reliable structure for a weekly meeting, to know what to...
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end of you and me
Valentine’s Day ranks at the top of the list of rocky days for incarcerated women. It’s a stark reminder of separation from loved ones, especially partners or spouses and children. And for some women,...
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manifest respect
Thursday last we held our twice-yearly Read Around inside Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility – the evening our writing women share their words with invited guests, some from outside the facility...
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rockin’ them blues
This week, Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility issued uniforms to its female inmates. Whatever the reasons behind the administrative decision, you can be sure its ramifications are not rippling...
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ENOUGH SAID!
I love the name of the report released this week by Vermont Works for Women - ENOUGH SAID! ..meaning enough chitter-chatter about the work and economic independence challenges facing young women and...
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waiting . . . waiting . . . waiting . . .
'Show me the way to wait . . . promise me . . . do something, please . . . soon.'
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paradox of peace
Entering prison with the intention of providing peaceful space, if even for 90 minutes, is beyond paradoxical. Yet weekly we enter the slamming metal doors to greet — and be greeted by — a determined...
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hope – faded or arrived?
'Nothing has changed but the thoughts that try interrupting my days with wonder if hope has faded out or has arrived.'
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fire in the eyes
The skull-light is not forgiving . . . it sees what it sees. Yet when one sees and senses thusly, then one has to work to do something about what one sees. – Clarissa Pinkola Estes,“Vasalisa and the...
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who I’ve become
This past Thursday evening was our semi-annual reading inside the Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility where all incarcerated women in Vermont are housed. We had over 40 guests, at least half of...
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cassandra
In modern usage, ‘a Cassandra’ is someone whose accurate prophecies are not believed by those around them, thanks to the curse the god Apollo put on her gift of prophecy as revenge for her broken...
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college education in prison
It’s happening. Here. Now. The very work that Meg and Sarah proposed over two years ago. The very work that many colleges and universities around the country as well as the state of Vermont have talked...
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under appreciated
Women are the one-half of humanity most likely to respond to beauty and to little children and young animals…We are the ones who bear the children and know of the effort it takes to raise a child into...
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“Life is a constant Advent season: we are continually waiting to become, to discover, to complete, to fulfill. Hope, struggle, fear, expectation and fulfillment are all part of our Advent experience.”...
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