After 11 years on this journey of joy and learning, I am closing down my foundation, having transferred the monies into a donor advised fund. So much has happened since 2012, including grants to many organizations, 16 retreats, 100+ zoom Check-in's, 50+ Gatherings, publication of the Principle Quest Unwrapped facilitator's guide, and three Gatherings hosted at my home (sometimes it was a bit sweltering!@#) 

While I am letting go of facilitating retreats, I remain deeply committed to our remarkable community of women – 150+ stong.

Among my foundation's largest grants was to Reading Partners. When 9 million elementary school children do not read at grade level today, CEO Adeola Whitney urged us to support their incredible work, "[we can] right now...invest in the future America they want to live in" and quoted Langston Hughes:

Hold fast to dreams 

For if dreams die

Life is a broken-winged bird

That cannot fly.

Hold fast to dreams

For when dreams go

Life is a barren field

Frozen with snow

#future #dreams 

The 16th Principle Quest retreat  – Time to think, a chance to reflect and a safe community.  

Our zoom call recently on Secrets of the Suffrage Movement was originally prompted by Ginny Corsi, who in early July invited me to visit The Matilda Joslyn Gage Center for Social Justice Dialogue and meet Sally Roesch Wagner, Gage Foundation's founder & author of The Women's Suffrage Movement and Sisters in Spirit. Who knew the indigenous governance of the Haudenosaume (Iroquois) Confederacy inspired these women – and our democracy, too? We also visited Harriet Tubman's home in Auburn and the National Women's Hall of Fame.