by Michelle Tocher | Sep 21, 2023
What is your image of God? This question has been with me for many years. For a long time I couldn’t access my personal image of God because the Old Testament God stood in the way. A picture of God in the sky with his bolt of lightning had rooted itself in my belief...
by Michelle Tocher | Aug 8, 2023
What exactly is a fable? By its very nature, a fable means something different to everyone. The word itself has many meanings. It can be seen as a falsehood, or a fictional story with a moral, or any mythic story that is not meant to be read literally. If you go to...
by Michelle Tocher | Jul 12, 2023
I’ve been following a beautiful garden path of thought as I spend time with Kathleen Raine’s books, Defending Ancient Springs and That Wondrous Pattern. In her essays she mingles with poets like William Blake, W.B. Yeats and Edwin Muir who have all experienced the...
by Michelle Tocher | May 5, 2023
The other night, I had an astonishing dream of a sweet young woman who was a ewe. She had horns and blond, tightly curled hair. She wore a white shift, and she was seven or eight months pregnant. She had stepped out of a story that we had heard told by a king. I...
by Michelle Tocher | Mar 8, 2023
I absolutely applaud the message delivered on International Women’s Day by Lauryn Oates, Executive Director of Canadian Women for Women of Afghanistan. Lauryn IWD message 2023 – YouTube In her address, she said: You don’t need to be Afghan to stand...
by Michelle Tocher | Jan 31, 2023
I had the pleasure of attending Sunday’s Muse’s voice workshop over the weekend, and she gave us the opportunity to write the story of our voices. Three words from her writing prompt started an outflow. The silent cry. It wasn’t there in the beginning. I’m...
