The After November 10th Party

The Party this past Saturday was amazing. Our theme was "our journeys". We started the after noon talking about how each woman's journey is unique....all her own....designed just for her... Here is the bottom line or focus about walking on our journey.....on our path in this world. No woman travels the same path as another. We stand alone, making our way in the world the best we know how. As alone as we are, we can walk together, holding hands and holding each other's hearts; walking alone on our own journey, yet together with the sisters of our hears, our girlfriends!

Jen Cohen, our presenter, did an amazing job helping us to explore our paths, our stories, our journeys through poetry. We read poetry and then we talked about it's meaning in our lives by either writing our own poem or just writing what came to our heart and mind. It was an inspiring afternoon. Here is a poem she shared with us that really inspired me.

When death comes

(by Mary Oliver)

When death comes

like the hungry bear in autumn;

when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse

to buy me, and snaps the purse shut;

when death comes like the measle-pox;

when death comes

like an iceberg between the shoulder blades,

I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering;

what is it going to be like, that cottage of darkness?

And therefore I look upon everything

as a brotherhood and sisterhood,

and I look upon time as no more than an idea,

and I consider eternity as another possibility,

and I think of each life as a flower, as common

as the field daisy, and as singular,

and each name a comfortable music in the mouth,

tending, as all music does, toward silence,

and each body a lion of courage, and something

precious to the earth.

When it's over, I want to say: all my life

I was a bride married to amazement.

I was the bridegroom taking the world into my arms.

When it's over, I don't want to wonder

if I have made of my life something particular, and real.

I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened

or full of argument.

I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.