Vision for Women~Land~Spirit

The Sacred Web Project is an opportunity for women to reflect on the interplay of women~land~spirit in their lives, through song, art, story, justice making, and ritual. It is an opportunity to respond to the deep and poignant call of earth and humanity living in relationship with one another.

Within our human lifetime, attitudes, assumptions, and decisions have had a massive effect on the life and health of our planet. The Women~Land~Spirit Project is a way of connecting the singing, refection, and creative expression of women with a deep need to understand our relatedness with land. In this way we can more intentionally create sustainable ways of living that reverence the earth, one another, and the wider community of beings with which we share life and habitat.

• How do we live with the land, the peoples of the land and ourselves as women of land, and touch the taut and shining thread that binds us, soul to soul, one to another, to mountains and wide lands, to the minute and fragile, the bothersome and threatening, all humming their way into the whole?

• Who are we in this vast circle of relations?
  

Carolyn McDade has heard the call of earth and responded in song.  The music of Women~Land~Spirit, much of which Carolyn created in response to the land of western Canada, calls us to delight in , to be inspired by, and to make justice with the earth and all beings of this earth.  This project is a work in progress, and your place in the process is important.  We are being called to make right relationship with ourselves, one another, and this our homeland.

There is a growing commitment to and solidarity with the vision of this project. Following conversations with Chris Loughlin ( a Dominican Sister who was part of the creation of the Womancentre at Plainville) and Tess Brown ( who spoke the magnificent solidarity message on the Sister Carry on Tape) Carolyn summarized their conversations in this way:

They each spoke of their joy and intuitive belief that it was good and right that this project is coming out of the formative energy of Canadian women.  They spoke of how they had experienced songs seeking a path in the world, how the vision of the singers is carried in the voice- how the singers and songs together place themselves in the world- they can serve the status quo or they carry a quality in the voice that comes from women who see with a different vision, who permeate the rigid with an integrity that in the very act and way of singing breathes confidence, breathes change, creating hope and possibility where there seem to be none. 

We sing with histories greater than our own stories.  We carry on those who have gone before insistent on a path true to the long wing of goodness Life sends through our veins.  I believe that in some form or another it is this deep, insistent song of Life that has brought us each to this circle.

May we let this love that will not lie be our voice.