I just returned from three glorious days on the waterfront in Gig Harbor, WA. If that wasn’t good enough, I was in the company of 15 amazing women – half of whom flew in from all over the U.S. and the other half of whom are located here in the Pacific Northwest. Sally Morgenthaler was with us as the “host” of what she calls Conversations and together we reveled in each other’s company and the beauty of not only the location, but the faces, hearts, stories, and lives of those by whom we were surrounded.
Though exhausted tonight, I am overwhelmed by the beautifully dangerous power present when 16 women are together. That danger is not to be feared, but embraced, welcomed, and aggressively ushered in to many places that are deeply in need of the power women have to offer. This is not a command-and-control kind of power, but power that is deeply connective, deeply intuitive, deeply generative, deeply creative, and deeply committed to what we said again and again: “I know what I know.”
16 powerful, dangerous, beautiful women in one place for three days are now disbursed into their larger communities. They came strong, broken, tender, wounded, growing, struggling, rejoicing. They left more powerful, more dangerous, and more beautiful – with even more to offer, more tears to shed, more voices to raise, more eyes to open, more lives to change, more worlds to alter, shape, heal, and lead.
I am not the same woman I was on Monday morning. Their voices have shaped and changed me. I am now more powerful, more dangerous, more beautiful, and more heartbroken, more committed, more compelled, more prepared, more tender, more strong. And I am not alone. I am surrounded – in heart – by 15 amazing companions; women who have and will continue to labor on behalf of one another and all that we are yet to birth. I’m grateful to you all: Sally, Leisa, Melanie, Mary Jane, Heather, Erika, Grace, Lisa, Lesa, Blair, Deborah, Denise, Becky, Meredith, and Shayne. I’m hopeful for many more such conversations. And I love that danger abounds in your beauty and strength – and in my own! Thank you!
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