Emily Dickinson's Nature Mysticism »    
Emily Dickinson's Nature Mysticism : A Photo Poetic Labyrinth
Explore a clickable 4-circuit meander, or labyrinth, with 32 mystic poems by Emily Dickinson, combining nature spirituality and travel imagery. Also includes related commentary adapted from ED's own writings, What is a Garden? and Afterthoughts! (Slideshows), a guide to Dickinson's Herbarium, a copy of St. Teresa of Avila's Interior Castle.
FREE MIDI MUSIC
Women Composers' Early Music & Ragtime MIDI

Ancient, Medieval & Renaissance Music CDs
Women composers, music by Kassia (Gregorian), Hildegard of Bingen, Trobairitz (Medieval Women Troubadours), Chansons de Femme, performed by Sinfonye, Anonymous 4, Sequentia, Circle Dances, Christine de Pisan, Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth I, the Black Madonna, Bridget of Ireland,

Emily Dickinson Feminist Essays
Brilliant, early feminist essays on Emily Dickinson's life, letters & poetry (pub. 1886-1915) by: (1) Emily Fowler Ford, (2) Ella Gilbert Ives, (3) Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, (4) Thomas Wentworth Higginson, (5) Susan Huntington Dickinson, (6) Lilian Whiting, (7) Martha Dickinson Bianchi
GREEK MYTHOLOGY
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter
(Includes Interlinear English, Ancient Greek and Greek Transliterations,
Art and Photo Illustrations, Citations from Feminist Commentary)
(001-014)
The Narcissus
(015-032)
Abduction
(033-050)
Novena
(051-061)
Hecate
(062-089)
Helios
(090-104)
The Descent
(105-117)
The Well
(118-144)
Doso's Story
(145-170)
Demeter Hired
(171-189)
Threshold
(190-205)
Iambe
(206-211)
The Kykeon
(212-232)
Demophoön
(233-254)
God Making
(255-279)
Transfigured
(280-295)
Epiphany
(296-309)
Shiva
(310-333)
Messengers
(334-358)
Hermes
(359-383)
Return
(384-413)
Pomegranate
(414-440)
Reunion
(441-469)
Rheia's Visit
(470-482)
The Rites
(483-495)
Triumph
A Celebration of Persephone — FlowerPower Photos
Essay's by Emily Dickinson's mentor, Thomas W. Higginson
on Sappho and the ancient Greek Goddesses
See also notes on Sappho's Choral Music
ANCIENT CHINESE TAOISM
 The Feminine Tao (Gender-Inclusive Translations of the Tao Te Ching)
Hyperlinked Bibliography: Women Authors on the Tao Te Ching
Immortal Sister Sun Bu-er, Taoist Poetry & Historical Legend
Picturing Tao (Enigmatic & Nature Photography)
Crookback: Women Masters in the Chuang-tzu
Magical Calligraphy of Tokai Okon



 

ZEN & ASIAN ARTS
ABLUTIONS
Citations from meditations on marimba music by Keiko Abe, with waka poetry by Otagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875)

From dawn to dusk
spending the day
gathering clay
surely Buddha would not
think this a trifling matter.

« Rengetsu's hand-shaped pottery with poems incised illustrated left
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JOMON POTTERY
Women's prehistoric pottery, citations, illustrations, links, Japanese Tea Ceremony (Zen-Taoist Aspects), Princess Shikishi's Wild Imaginings (waka), Art & Spirituality of Japanese Gardens
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WOMEN ZEN MASTERS
(Raihai Tokuzui), and more at Dogen Zenji's (Gender-Inclusive) Studies of the Way, also Illustrations for Dogen's ECOSPIRITUALITY
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IDIOPHONICS 
Natural Sounds (with sound effects) in Early Japanese Women's Poetry, Early Japanese Women Poets Bibliography
 Nukata: Songs of the Shamaness, On a Stream of Thoughts: Classical Waka Poetry by Lady Ise ___ ___ ___ 

 

AMERICAN QUILTS: HISTORY & DESIGN
  Antique Geometric (Historical Quilt Designs & Free Patchwork Blocks)

Tangram Quilt Designs: free patchwork quilt block designs 
derived from solutions to an ancient Chinese puzzle
How to Be a Pattern to the World!
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 Harriet Powers: African-American Story-Bible Quilts
 Rags to Riches: quilt fabric online sources
with ragtime MIDI music by women composers


Illustration (Top): Frida Kahlo - Self Portrait with Monkey
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