Claiming the Crone
Friday, January 7, 2005
This is a new experience. Would never have even thought of trying a "blog", except it's nearly quittin' time at work, and I am, for once, almost nearly caught up with everything I need to do for this week.
What is "claiming the crone"? What is a "crone"? Most people would think of an old, shriveled up, pruney great-grandmotherly type, sitting quietly in her rocker, in the corner, quiet and unnoticed, except perhaps when she turns out a new pair of socks or a tea cozy with her knitting needles.
Not so!
A crone is a powerful woman, full of the deep wisdom of life experience, the joys, the sorrows, the tragedies. She has experienced love and loss and emerged from both stronger, wiser and better than she was as a young maiden. Who says youth is wasted on the young?? Who says a crone isn't "young"?
I call on all women over the age of 40 to claim their crone, to be vivid and vibrant as the years pass, to rage against the stereotypes that would put us on the shelves of the world, and give everything to our nubile, but vapid, teenybopper sisters. Sure, there's a place for them, and when they get past that phase, they, too, will become the wise and juicey crones that are becoming one of the most powerful forces in the world. If they're lucky!
Crones rule!!
Crone
This is a new experience. Would never have even thought of trying a "blog", except it's nearly quittin' time at work, and I am, for once, almost nearly caught up with everything I need to do for this week.
What is "claiming the crone"? What is a "crone"? Most people would think of an old, shriveled up, pruney great-grandmotherly type, sitting quietly in her rocker, in the corner, quiet and unnoticed, except perhaps when she turns out a new pair of socks or a tea cozy with her knitting needles.
Not so!
A crone is a powerful woman, full of the deep wisdom of life experience, the joys, the sorrows, the tragedies. She has experienced love and loss and emerged from both stronger, wiser and better than she was as a young maiden. Who says youth is wasted on the young?? Who says a crone isn't "young"?
I call on all women over the age of 40 to claim their crone, to be vivid and vibrant as the years pass, to rage against the stereotypes that would put us on the shelves of the world, and give everything to our nubile, but vapid, teenybopper sisters. Sure, there's a place for them, and when they get past that phase, they, too, will become the wise and juicey crones that are becoming one of the most powerful forces in the world. If they're lucky!
Crones rule!!
Crone
To crone or not to crone, that is the question! Sad to say, when many people reach crone status, they opt to try to reverse the process, deny their cronehood, or surrender and do settle into their corner rocker. Is it this society that relegates its elders to pussycats, doilies, and life's periphery?
ReplyDeleteArise! Look within! Reflect on your gifts, your wisdom, your experiential fullness! Cathy Keen of the U of Florida has some encouraging wods for those who feel the pull of the Lazy Boy. By the way...there are us man-crones, too!
You may surely delete this hype link, but in the interest of furthering discourse, my blog is Writersblokblog.
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