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WRITING FIRE features powerful writing by more than 75 women of all ages and from many walks of life, most of them local to the Berkshire region. Including fiction, poetry, personal narrative, essays and humor, Writing Fire offers an intimate window into the strengths, passions and perspectives inspiring and unforgettable women writers.

When the world was derailed by Covid-19, the Lemonade Generation was launched as adult children came home with laptops, dirty laundry and one-way plane tickets, seeking stability to ride out the cyclone of uncertainty. In Good Work, Grit & Gratitude, Adrian Dubow and Laura Koffsky share how they learned to find the sweetness in this very sour time. Cooking excessive amounts of food, hoarding toilet paper, and even learning to sit quietly on the sidelines of an Ironman competition, they transformed into true IronMoms, developing deeper relationships with their children along with a newfound understanding of the power of community. In this honest, humorous, and profound memoir, they share how they learned to mask up, shut up, listen, laugh, let go and let the next generation lead, grateful to be along for the ride in the passenger's seat, giving directions-when asked!

Do you worry about our planet, with its environmental crises, global warming, widespread violence, and global poverty? Do you feel powerless to change your life and impact your world? What in the World Is Going On reframes these crises as an invitation to open our minds and hearts to a new awareness of our fundamental interdependence with all beings. With breathtaking optimism, it offers courage and hope to all who hold the world in their hearts and grieve.

Randy Chung Gonzales was leading an ordinary life in his hometown of Lamas, Peru, when his employer, anthropologist Frédérique Apffel-Marglin, asked him to accompany her to an ayahuasca ceremony led by a local shaman. There, to everyone's great surprise, Randy was initiated by discarnate entities, who instructed him and gave him healing powers. In this unique book, Randy tells his story to Frédérique, who offers cultural context and describes how she herself has been transformed from an academic anthropologist into an advocate for the sharing of indigenous wisdom and ecospirituality. Drawing on history, cultural studies and anthropology, Frédérique offers a penetrating analysis of Western science-based modernity, which has made the systematic eradication of shamanism a priority. Initiated by the Spirits argues powerfully that shamanic sacred plants can heal the epidemics of mental illness in Western societies, as well as the global ecological crisis. Randy's shamanic initiation serves as a beacon for new ways of conceiving of the human relationship to science, spirit and our planetary home.

High in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, the chance encounter of an orthopedic surgeon and an impish boy clad in bright pink rubber boots changes both their lives...Dr. Pier Boutin responded to the call for orthopedic surgeons after the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Leading the first surgical team to arrive in Port-au-Prince, she witnessed devastating trauma and unimaginable suffering. To distract from the haunting memories she traveled to Morocco. In the Atlas Mountains, she came upon a three-year-old boy stumbling around on deformed feet.Walking is vital for survival in these remote mountains. With untreated clubfeet, this child faced a dismal future. Yet despite his struggles to walk, he giggled and smiled. His magnetic charm captivated her. She could not walk away.His needs eclipsed her own despondence after the trauma of Haiti.She thought, "If he can smile despite his disability, why can't I?"This chance encounter would affect many lives for years to come.Dr. Boutin's compassion and determination overcame all obstacles to bring this child, Little Mo, to the United States to treat his disability.In the process, she changed his life-but he also changed hers.Dr. Boutin is a board-certified orthopedic surgeon with over thirty years of experience. She lives with her family in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts.www.pierboutinmd.com"This is the powerful story of Little Mo, a four-year-old boy from the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, whose future changed when he met Dr. Pier Boutin, a medical genius in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts. This boy transformed her life and many more." -Dr. Alan Chartock, CEO, Northeast Public Radio"In this beautiful, must-read story-equal parts fascinating and inspiring-Dr. Pier Boutin takes us on a captivating journey of courage, healing, and purpose. With hard-won life lessons and resonant stories, Dr. Boutin speaks from her heart, teaching us how to respond to life's challenges and uncertainties with boundless compassion and resilience." -Heather Thomson, Inventor, Entrepreneur, Entertainer"Pier Boutin shows you exactly how one person can make a difference in this world. Giving her love, time and talent, she took the lead to inspire hundreds of people to cross global, religious and cultural boundaries to heal a little boy, who in turn transformed her own life along with many others. This gripping and achingly beautiful memoir reads like a thriller. It will uplift and empower you to your own greatness." -Debbie Phillips, founder of Women on Fire®, podcast host, and author of 20 Inspiring Women Share Their Life Secrets (and Save You Years of Struggle!)

During the 1970's and 80's, Signe Eklund Schaefer and her young family moved often, within the United States and abroad. Handwritten letters, now relics of a pre-Internet world, were vital to her ongoing connection with friends and to her evolving sense of self. From the surprising discovery of these old letters she has woven a moving account of the reflections, mutual support and multi-dimensional exchanges between women friends, which offer a record of women's lives five decades ago, and speak powerfully to contemporary social concerns. Exploring relationships, motherhood, children, personal development, career and friendship itself, the letters touch on the emerging women's movement, efforts for world peace, and individual spiritual striving. The Epilogue offers new letters from these articulate and impassioned women, now in their 70's and 80's.

WISDOM LESSONS is the culmination of a lifetime steeped in indigenous spiritual traditions, as well as the proverbial school of hard knocks. At once plainspoken and lyrical, Grandmother Mary offers invaluable lessons for anyone interested in living in alignment with their higher self.Praise for Mary Lyons and Wisdom Lessons:"Mary Lyons carries knowledge with a genuine smile, providing healing and love." - Paula Looking Horse, Sioux elder and co-founder of World Peace & Prayer Day "Mary inspires me to remember the past and look towards the future, all while living and laughing in the moment." - Attorney Kathryn Holt Richardson "Her wisdom has changed my life." - Ginny Blade, Adoption Support Network, St. Paul, MN Great-Grandmother Mary Lyons, Ojibwe Elder from Minnesota, is a spiritual advisor, storyteller and wisdomkeeper. She teaches internationally, healing communities from the negative effects of substance abuse. After her own recovery, guided by her ancestors, she dedicated her life to helping others, fostering and adopting children with family problems, disabilities and fetal alcohol syndrome.

Bioneers co-founder Nina Simons offers practical guidance and inspiration for anyone who aspires to grow into their own unique form of leadership on behalf of positive change.

For thousands of years, the sacred feminine has balanced the sacred masculine in egalitarian societies, an equality that has been lost in the western world beginning with the rise of patriarchy some 5,000 years ago. Today, evidence of goddess worship in the Neolithic Age is being written out of history books once again by a patriarchal backlash in archaeology.Dance of the Deities weaves together memoir with anthropological research, taking the reader on a journey back in time to complex ancient societies and into a future in which women''s spiritual and secular authority is being revitalized by many forces, including encounters with psychedelic medicines and new kinds of modern villages. Patricia McBroom compiles evidence of the ancient Nature goddesses, while calling for contemporary women to replace comic book images of feminine beauty with authentic Earth-based images of female power and authority.The author''s existential quest for an understanding of the role of the sacred female is set into her wide-ranging journey through time and across cultures. Inviting the reader to join in the "dance of the deities," she argues that a thriving human future on the planet is dependent on rebalancing the masculine and feminine in a science-based environmental sense of the sacred.