Last weekend I taught hand sewing and embroidery at Turtle Island, an off-grid thousand-acre nature preserve in North Carolina. I also participated in blacksmithing and netmaking classes and went on a long quiet walk... discovering I shared a birthday with one of the founders.
It was a beautiful weekend to unplug and pick up skills. The students were a delight. I watched them fall in love with sewing, some of them claiming they'd never thought such a thing possible. The truth is matters of femininity are far from despicable once we move past the lie that we're incompetent. The word empowerment gets thrown around a lot, but it's simply capability and joy.
Some call it domestic servitude... because they want more corporate slaves and fewer competent women guiding communities. A skilled, capable woman isn't a doormat. She's a queen with a broom in hand ready to beat the pulp out of that doormat so you'll feel welcomed in her domain.
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Our sermons will be more readily heard, too, because it will be backed by authentic benevolence.
Do check out Turtle Island's available courses. They of course have something available for just about anyone and everyone. Their next woods woman's weekend is in the fall! And they also have two-week summer camps for young girls.
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