Page 44 - Dark Matter:Women Witnessing Issue2

“What can we do to open ourselves again?” asked the man.

“Grieve,” said the plant.

It happened that someone had lent my friend an elephant tooth. He spent the next three days sitting

with the plant, cleaning that tooth, and weeping.

Cynthia Travis is a writer and documentary filmmaker, and is Founder

& President of the non–profit peacebuilding organization everyday

gandhis (www.everydaygandhis.org). Since 2004, peacebuilders from

everyday gandhis have been working with traditional communities,

women and ex-­‐combatants in Liberia, West Africa, and with selected

schools and communities in the US. All projects arise from dreams

and community dialogue. She recently launched the new blog,

Borders and Edges (www.borders-­‐and-­‐edges.blogspot.com). In a

former life she was a teacher and mediation trainer for children in

California and New Mexico. She lives in a small intentional

community on the Mendocino Coast.