Maid . Mother . Crone
This June I will turn 60. I find myself approaching this new trip around the sun with internal delight. I am sensing that with this birthday will come the opening of an entirely new chapter of my life, and I’m excited. I recognize and have much contact with me as a little girl. The ‘maid’ I once was in physical form is still vividly alive in the wonder and joy I experience in living. When one of my four children now grown to adulthood pulls into the driveway, I welcome them as a special kind of close friend. I treasure that friendship grown over the years of caring for baby ducklings together, washing sticky jelly faces, participating in snowball fights and engaging in lengthy talks when little hearts were wounded. What will the years ahead hold for me as I move toward the ‘crone,’ the wise woman I will become?
“Becoming” reveals the progression in the life of women, the movement toward a wholeness through embodying our totality . . . The ‘maid’ we once were, the ‘mother’ who has given birth to children, to her own identity, children, or to a thriving business . . . And then, the ‘crone,’ her fully realized feminine presence seasoned by the fully engaged life she has lived up to now.
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