We're looking for stories of other women peacemakers to post on this blog! Do you know a women who does the work of peacemaking? Are you a peacemaker yourself? Send us your stories then! Why do you do what you do? What makes you get out of bed in teh morning? What brought you to your path? What gives you hope? Where do you see peace happening in the world? How do you create peace within your own life?
If you have answers to any of these questions, then send your story to peacestories.tortugas @ gmail.com.
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The women from the Traveling with the Turtle classes at the Federal Correctional Insitute in Dublin, CA added color and their own flair to this mural, drawn by Kendra, a colleague at the American Friends Service Committee.
Stories of peacemaking
About Tortugas
We are a group of women who have been meeting on a regular basis to share our spiritual journeys and our own stories of peacemaking. We have been using a book called Traveling with the Turtle, thus our name: Tortugas (Spanish for Turtles)
The stories you find here are ones we have collected from fellow women peacemakers. If you would like to submit your own story of working for peace or the story of a fellow female peacemaker, please email it to peacestories.tortugas @ gmail.com.
Thank you!
The stories you find here are ones we have collected from fellow women peacemakers. If you would like to submit your own story of working for peace or the story of a fellow female peacemaker, please email it to peacestories.tortugas @ gmail.com.
Thank you!
The Women of Tortugas
Annie
Emily
Kat
Katie
Kerrie
Marjorie
Mary Kate
Emily
Kat
Katie
Kerrie
Marjorie
Mary Kate
Books we like...
- Adventure Divas -Holly Morris
- Animal, Vegetable, Miracle -Barbara Kingsolver
- Blessed Among All Women -Robert Ellsberg
- Cuba Diaries -Isadora Tattlin
- Eat, Pray, Love -Elizabeth Gilbert
- Haroun and the Sea of Stories -Salman Rushdie
- Interpreter of Maladies -Jhumpa Lahiri
- Life of the Beloved -Henri J.M. Nouwen
- Loaves & Fishes -Dorothy Day
- Middlesex -Jeffrey Eugenides
- Mountains Beyond Mountains -Tracy Kidder
- Prodigal Summer -Barbara Kingsolver
- The Book of Flying -Keith Miller
- The Cloister Walk -Kathleen Norris
- The Friendship of Women -Joan Chittister
- The History of Love -Nicole Krauss
- The Irresistable Revolution -Shane Claiborne
- The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse -Louise Erdrich
- The Red Tent -Anita Diamant
- The Sparrow -Mary Doria Russell
- The Time Traveler's Wife -Audrey Niffenegger
- Three Cups of Tea -Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin
- Traveling with the Turtle: A Small Group Process in Women's Spirituality and Peacemaking
- Walk in a Relaxed Manner -Joyce Rupp
- When the Heart Waits -Sue Monk Kidd
The turtle is an ancient symbol of women’s wisdom and power.
The women from the Traveling with the Turtle classes at the Federal Correctional Insitute in Dublin, CA added color and their own flair to this mural, drawn by Kendra, a colleague at the American Friends Service Committee.