Sublime

In every family, and in many folk tales, there is a designated black sheep.

and let the other creatures be what they are too.

Knowing (cognizant)

Once women have lost her and then found her again, they will contend to keep her for good. Once they have regained her, they will fight and fight hard to keep her, for with her their creative lives blossom; their relationships gain meaning and depth and health; their cycles of sexuality, creativity, work, and play are re-established; they are no lo

This is done by descending into the deepest mood of great love and feeling, till one’s desire for relationship with the wildish Self overflows,

Her

There you have the start of Herland! One family, all descended from one mother! She lived to a hundred years old; lived to see her hundred and twenty-five great-granddaughters born; lived as Queen-Priestess-Mother of them all; and died with a nobler pride and a fuller joy than perhaps any human soul has ever known—she alone had founded a new race!

Sometimes a stranger asks me for one of the stories I’ve mined, shaped, and carried over the years. As the keeper of these stories, given to me on the basis of promises asked