Red Tent Gathering

04/16/2024

01/08/2024

So grateful to gather together, again.
Looking forward to next time ❤️❤️❤️

11/22/2023

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When I rise up
let me rise up joyful
like a bird.

When I fall
let me fall without regret
like a leaf.

~ Wendell Berry

Art: Elaine Bayley
Elaine Bayley Illustrations

11/15/2023

Peace, be still

I ask all the animals to open their mouths
to howl this prayer for peace

I ask all the birds to lift their songs to the winds
and sing this prayer for peace

I ask all the trees and flowers, all that is green growing
to open their hollow throats where the sap runs
to call this prayer for peace

I ask the rocks to dream this prayer for peace

I ask the sand to rearrange its grains
and write this prayer for peace

I ask the ocean wave to shout this prayer for peace
or whisper it on the lonely listening beaches
where the rivers will send it upstream
in the willing breath of fish

I ask the deep wells to give rise to this prayer for peace

I ask the holy hills to toll this prayer for peace

I ask the stars to shine the spelling
of this prayer for peace

and the moon and the sun pause in the sky
as night and day, as right and left, as east and west
as all that is opposite yet may still come into balance
in harmony with this world, and in time

I ask for every candleflame to ignite this prayer for peace

so that this prayer is in the world and of the world
and becomes the world and the world is peace.

~ Rose Flint, from “Mother of Pearl”
www.poetrypf.co.uk/roseflintpage.shtml

Art: Malak Mattar, “When peace dies, embrace it. It will live again."
Malak Mattar
https://www.etsy.com/shop/MalakArtStore

05/24/2023

Hello friends! Red Tent for May is on Saturday from 7-9PM. The signups and donations are listed on the SolrayStudios.com website. If finances are an issue for you, please just send me an email at [email protected] and you'll be added to the list-no questions asked! We'll be talking about female hormones, self-care, and making flower petal designs on the floor!
See you all on Saturday!

04/22/2023

Note of changed venue, sweet friends.
We've been gathering at Solray Studios.
Come and be ❤️

03/12/2023

https://youtu.be/SQijq5Swd7A

Things We Don't Talk About: Woman's Stories from the Red Tent is a groundbreaking 72-minute documentary film by award winning filmmaker Isadora Gabrielle Lei...

02/11/2023

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“Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.”

~ Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, A Life For A Life

Art: Xi Pan
https://www.artlex.com/artists/xi-pan/

02/11/2023

Looking forward to the rest and integration tonight. See you at 7pm ❤️

01/08/2023

What a beautiful gathering sweet friends