Rose Cottage

  Our theme for tomorrow's Red Thread Circle is Wonder Woman,  connecting with our own power.  One of my Sheros is Abigail Scott Duniway - our own 'Oregon Pioneer Suffregette!'  Born in 1834, Abigail's family traveled by wagon train from Illinois to Oregon in 1852, and seventeen-year-old Abigail Scott was assigned the task of keeping a daily journal. She married Ben Duniway the next year, and they settled in the Willamette valley. Her husband was injured in 1962, and Abigail became the breadwinner, taking boarders, teaching school and running a millinery shop.  The family moved to Portland in 1871, and Abigail began a weekly human-rights newspaper, The New Northwest, which she edited and published in Portland for sixteen years (1871-1887) Editor and Publisher Abigail first headed to the polls (closed at the time to women ) at 38, in 1872; after campaigning for Ulysses S  Grant/ Henry Wilson.  On election day, Abigail led Mary Laurinda Jane Smith Beat...

  We're a week into February and our focus on Resetting Your Space as a Living Altar. This is the third year I've been invited to co-host with my creative Sistar Katy, and we've both decided to focus on our studios.   Craft supplies & Altar I'm also enrolled in an 8 week course on using Creativity to foster Resilience, with my friend Cindy Jacobs . We are using Soul Collage and Mixed media to craft cards, and exploring insights in our journals. Cindy i s also offering a monthly circle to make cards around our Word of the Year - email Cindy to register for these! Yesterday I moved a small set of shelves next to my couch, where I do most craftey bits!  Angel of Time One of the first SC 'Neter' (archetype) cards is this helpful Time Angel! I've been working with her since ~ 1995, when my friend Anita and I invoked her aid on the way to a Reiki circle (and arrived 'on time' - though we should have been late!)  Whilst resetting our spaces, it can also...