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ShekhinaMountainwater & MaxineFeldmanPass With great sadness we pass on the news that Shekhina Mountainwater passed on Saturday August 11 in California and Maxine Feldman passed suddenly on Friday August 17 at her home in Albuquerque, NM. Both of these wimmin touched our lives in so many ways as they expressed and helped create and expand our Lesbian lives and culture. Shekhina was for decades active in goddess circles and her initiating energy moved many projects into being.
Shekhina was also an early Maize contributor, part of our Maize web of wondrous wimmin. Ariadne's Thread is her well known book on goddess magic teachings. She was a talented writer, artist and song writer and her chants are sung regularly at women’s circles around the world. Perhaps her best known chant is “We are the flow, we are the web….” Cat Heron informs us that Shekhina, who succumbed to cancer, was lovingly tended in her transition by a circle of goddess women who sang her into the light. Our hearts are with Shekhina in her Journey and our sympathies go out to her extensive family and friendship circle. Maxine entertained and inspired us in our homes and coffeehouses, on stage and on her albums since the earliest days of the women’s movement. We laughed with her humor, expanded with her wisdom, and cried with her caring heartfulness. Maxine wrote her now-famous and the first openly performed Lesbian song in 1969 and recorded it in 1972 as a 45—Angry Atthis. According to Maxine, “Angry Atthis, of course, is a play on words. I was ‘angry at this’ lesbian oppression. My brainy girl side wanted to call my piece Sappho's Song, but then I read that Atthis was the name of one of Sappho's lovers. And Atthis began to appear to me as a better statement of all I felt. The song just spewed out of me." As a performer, she was a fixture at the Michigan Women's Festival for most of the 70's, and her song Amazon became an annual theme song for the event. Our hearts go out to the countless friends that Maxine made over the decades, to her family and to her lover Helen.
Love to you all,
Jae | 
