Will You Join Me?
By Jeanie Johnson My submissions to Conscious Community the past few years have been generally based on two themes. One was the telling of stories, many…
Climate Change
By Jeanie Johnson July and August 2013 in Minneapolis, where I now reside, rolled out a couple intense heat waves that were mighty challenging. In our…
WITHOUT A CAR – making magic
By Jeanie Johnson The 12th and 13th of October I attended the Women & Spirituality Conference in Mankato, Minnesota. The keynote address was given by a…
Energy
By Jeanie Johnson “We need much more renewable energy, and we need it fast. We must replace fossil fuels in order to prevent a climate catastrophe.…
Keep Me the Country – chemical overload in the time of women
By Jeanie Johnson (Picture: Dorathy Sprague Thompson & daughter Jeanie Thompson Johnson) In a scene from National Lampoon’s 1989 movie Christmas Vacation Clark Griswold (played by Chevy Chase),…
The Thirteen Grandmothers – in the time of women
By Jeanie Johnson Clarissa Pinkola Estes writes in the introduction to her fabulous 1992 best seller, Women Who Run with the Wolves, “There are times when…
A Red Sun in the time of women: part 2
By Jeanie Johnson The camp reassembled to talk about the winds and the fires and what to do and how to do it. Tension was high;…
A Red Sun in the time of women: part 1
By Jeanie Johnson Five thousand feet above sea level at the edge of the West. Dry, almost breathtakingly dry. Pine boughs dark green with curling edges…
Will We Rise?
The Time of Women – Part 2 & Part 3 By Jeanie Johnson You ever hear the peeper frogs in the spring? Out by the wet…
The Time of Women – Part 1
By Jeanie Johnson Long ago the first human beings came to a land that was unspoiled and beautiful. There were creatures of every kind in abundance;…
