THE WISE WOMEN VIDEO SERIES

     When I decided it was time that I produced a videotape on something that reflected my concerns, instead of concentrating on the projects of business clients … when my friend Lily Cann, Avalon Video Productions expressed an interest in working together on a video …when my friend Ruth Gardner told me about her mother-daughter croning ceremony …the collaboration bells began to toll. We worked together to produce the videotape:
Celebration of Age, the Croning Ceremony. 

     Because of this video, I was invited by Mary Diamond, to join with Marilyn Bacon, a videographer from California, to document the spiritual retreat of sixteen women over 62. They came together from all over the country to study the contributions that old women could make to better our world. 
The videotape result: 
Grandmothers Speak: Healing the Earth.
      
     At this retreat, I met two grandmothers who were committed to environmental homes, Mary Diamond living in her straw bale house and Shirley Tassencourt building her earth dome dwellings.  I worked with two Tucson videographers, Z Woods and Veronica Angel, to complete the project:
Architects of Change: Two Grandmothers.

     A grant from the Grandmother Winifred Foundation allowed me to produce a videotape about Shirley Tassencourt, teacher, artist, environmentalist and wise woman: 
Sage for All Seasons

Malka Goldenwolf, now head of the International Council of Wise Women, was in charge of an annual celebration for women of age called Crone Counsel III. She asked me to join with Beverly Nelson, who had offered to videotape the conference.  The documentary was added to the Wise Women Videos: 
Celebrating Our Lives
  
     Each project meant I had the good fortune to meet, interview and work with wonderful women from all parts of the United States and other countries as well. I treasure the friendships I have made through writing and producing the video collection.

     But there’s more. The videos then introduced me to women who bought them and used them in traditional and surprising ways, with family and friends, women in circles, cancer patients, abused women, nursing and med students, gerontology teachers, prisoners,  church groups, and homeless women. Emails from Iceland and Denmark, letters from Florida, New Hampshire, California, Texas, Minnesota and states in between, I’ve been in touch with inspirational women of age. I am a lucky woman. One thing leads to another.

Thank you, universe, for that. 

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