tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598189770868382234.post-71986038989705461242008-07-16T12:35:00.015-06:002008-07-19T18:33:56.670-06:00<blockquote><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;">“</span>A woman who calls herself crone is willing to acknowledge her age, wisdom, and power. Through conscious self-definition, she helps to reverse hundreds of years of oppression, degradation, and abuse aimed at old women. Although she may prefer to be called elder, grandmother, or wise woman, she does not dismiss, disavow, or use pejoratively terms such as crone, witch, or hag. The wise woman/crone/grandmother realizes that the true meaning of these terms, and the woman-centered traditions from which they originate...<span style="font-size:130%;">”</span></div></blockquote><div align="right">From: <a href="http://www.croning.org/pages/534083/index.htm">Bayla Bower</a></div><br /><div align="left">Today is my birthday, I’d say I’m officially a crone; a fact that both amazes me (how did this happen?) and fills me with much emotion: mirth, pride, wonder…<br /><br />I feel like a kid; I’m healthy, I’m interested in so many things, I enjoy my life. </div><div align="left">Sixty. ...Wow </div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left">I’m going to embrace what I’ll call my ‘inner Crone’; no point in flaunting a good thing. Sixty is a good number, but I think I’ll keep it to myself. Soon enough I can <a href="http://www.aztriad.com/pathmark/purple_poem.html">wear purple and a red hat that doesn’t go…</a> I'm not old yet, dammit.</div>Beverlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09334121900896195207noreply@blogger.com