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Jennifer Boire Patient Expert

California
Through my blogs www.msmenopause.blogspot.com and www.questinggirl.blogspot.com I hope to reach out to women who are looking for an alternative to a strictly medical approach to women's health and the menstrual cycle in particular. Middle age is the best time of life, but it seems like menopause... Full Bio
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Poem for The Change by Jennifer Boire Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health "(S)he who was living is now dead We who were living are now dying With a little patience Here is no water but only rock Rock and no water and the sandy road ... Read on »
Mother Famine (in Recognition of Eve Ensler) by Jennifer Boire Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health Mother-famine You were lost to me before I was born. When the ram’s horn blew and the temple walls came tumbling down over my head, stone by stone, at Jericho. I lost you w ... Read on »
Poem for Middle Aged Women by Jennifer Boire Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health Cross Currents by Noelle Sickels The moon's choreography is less reliable now. Unlike the obedient tides my body chooses its own tempo, sways out of rhythm ... Read on »
Motherless by Jennifer Boire Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health Julien somersaults onto my lap, Caitlin drums in the dark basement. I fear for their lithe bodies that jump & fall, bounce back, and blithely go, while lightnin ... Read on »
Mother Love by Jennifer Boire Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health “If it is in a woman’s nature to nurture then she must nourish herself.” Anne Morrow Lindbergh Read on »
Oneness within by Jennifer Boire Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health You who want knowledge, seek the Oneness within There you will find the clear mirror already waiting. Hadewijch II of Antwerp 13th ct From Women in Praise ... Read on »
Words of Peace by Jennifer Boire Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health An ageless message, a timeless quest something old, something new what you are looking for is inside of you check out www.wordsofpeace.ca or www.wordsofpeace. ... Read on »
Poem for Spring by Jennifer Boire Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health Listen to the birds The prodigious wind doth blow and heartily. Something is about to happen. Listen, it calls you… bright from within the shining … glisten ... Read on »
How might your life have been different? by Jennifer Boire Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health from I sit Listening to the wind: "How might your life have been different, once, long ago, when you had worked very hard to know what you knew inside, and were ready to b ... Read on »
On Grief by Jennifer Boire Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health There are some griefs so loud They could bring down the sky, And there are griefs so still None knows how deep they lie, Endured, never expended. There are old ... Read on »
Sunrise by Mary Oliver by Jennifer Boire Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health You can die for it -- an idea, or the world. People have done so, brilliantly, letting their small bodies be bound to the stake, creating an ... Read on »
Sacred Space by Jennifer Boire Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health I seek the solace of my own soul's company. I seek the low-down quiet space inside, where I do not need to travel on pilgrimage, to a holy well, to a grotto or sacred spo ... Read on »
death and friends by Jennifer Boire Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health We prescribe a friend We are wisdom and healing, roasted meat and the star Canopus. We’re ground and spilled wine soaking in. When illness comes, we cure ... Read on »
The physics of cloudiness by Jennifer Boire Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health Apparently, when there is too much orderly tought, we are rigid, not creative, yet the opposite, scattered energy too haphazard, is not useful either - nothing sticks or persi ... Read on »
women's journey and circles by Jennifer Boire Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health Two summers ago, I ventured to Taos New Mexico for a Writer's Spa, a writing retreat with twenty women, which included yoga, yummy food and daily exercises and inspiration fro ... Read on »
The Honey Tree by Jennifer Boire Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health And so at last I climbed the honey tree, ate chunks of pure light, ate the bodies of bees that could not get out of my way, ate the dark hair of t ... Read on »
Choosing to Stay at Home with kids, poem by Jennifer Boire Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health A Woman's Choice It's the small details: rat's nest in his hair, holes in her tights, who is whose friend today at school, making sure the right combo of gree ... Read on »
menopause poems by Jennifer Boire Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health Medusa 1878 Arnold Bocklin Medusa I had come to the house, in a cave of trees, facing a sheer sky. Everything moved, - a bell hung ready to strike. Su ... Read on »
Poem for Midlife women and their Mothers by Jennifer Boire Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Women's Health August Third by May Sarton These days lifting myself up like a heavy weight, old camel getting to her knees I think of my mother and the inexhaustible fl ... Read on »