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2007 - Nicoline, The Netherlands

I have not yet started a Grandmothers' group, however, I was assisting a summer week of the Dances of Universal Peace here in Holland (LINK) and there the Grandmothers (and I) were able to empower around twenty women and give the cloak of comfort to three men. Some of the women had read the Dutch translation of your book about the Grandmothers. They were very happy that I could pass on the empowerment. And I was happy, too.

I asked the Grandmothers to lead the ceremony and the meditation. And they did. We were all in it together: the Grandmothers, the women participating and you. For of course I had consulted my notes about how you lead our ceremony in Zoetermeer.

Because of the reactions of the women I knew the Grandmothers had lead me. I am the sort of storyteller that few people listen to, I simply do not have the knack. But these women told me they hung on my lips, riveted by the stories I told from the book! This cannot have been me, I thought! Also the enormous amount of love and energy during the ceremony was a definite sign I was not in it on my own. Afterwards two men who had not been there came to me to express their willingness to receive the cloak of comfort as soon as possible. Also the next day it turned out that the kitchen had been short of staff because of the women receiving their empowerment.

Of course everybody was deeply moved by the empowerment, I saw and felt much loving power. The women who received their empowerment assisted in giving the other women their empowerment, everybody participated. During the meditation of the Pitcher and the Cup, I repeated the phrase "You do the living, We do the giving" several times and it was picked up as a mantra and intoned for a minute or so. (The phrase was important for me as dance assistant in the camp.)