gratitude links

Love and gratitude can part seas, move mountains, and create miracles. And love and gratitude can dissolve all negativity. - Rhonda Byrne

inspiration

sepia-tone image of Brigid, the triple goddess with the faces of the maiden, mother, and croneBlessed Are These Hands was inspired by Brigid and by a poem written by Diann Neu (in Elizabeth Roberts and Elias Emidon, ed., Earth Prayers/Earth Songs, HarperCollins, 1991, p. 205). Dr. Neu is a Cofounder and Codirector of WATER - the Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual.

For more information about the poem, read a handout distributed at the March-April 2005 Blessed Are These Hands exhibition at the Cal Poly Downtown Center Art Gallery. (It is a PDF and requires the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view.)

 

wipi.org camera logoWomen in Photography International - WIPI "promotes the visibility of women photographers and their work, through exhibitions, awards, scholarships, educational programs, juried competitions and lecture programs, non-profit website with Quarterly f2-eZine for features about women photographers around the world."

Take Great Pictures - tips and techniques from The Photoimaging Information Council

books.... a few standouts

Susan gratefully recognizes UCLA's Center for the Study of Women, particularly Chris LIttleton and Regina Lark, for support on this project from 2004 to 2007.

Susan and Marvelle gratefully acknowledge the helping hand of Dr. Elena DeVos at Words @ Work.

participants

Explore links to websites of the women who graciously let us photograph their hands >>>

music

Jewel, singing "Hands" at the Vatican. Click forward arrowabove to to watch.

tech support

Thanks to Apple Computer for developing the computer we use to edit photographs for Blessed Are These Hands and this website, and for the software to develop a DVD with a movie about 13 blessed hands and scrapbooks of all of the images in the project.

click forward arrowabove to to watch the movie

Additional thanks to Canon, Nikon, Adobe, Wacom, the software company formerly called Macromedia, and HP.

About the Book

Gratitude Links

News

Three photographs (Bharti's, Maria's, and Theresa's hands) are published in the 2008 appointment and desk calendar, We-Moon 08: Gaia Rhythms for Women (Mother Tongue Ink, Publisher, June 2007).

One photo  (Carol’s hands) appears as the theme image for the ezine Trivia: Voices of Feminism (Issue 5, February, 2007)

hands holding a lit candle at night

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Recent Photographs

Recent additions to Blessed Are These Hands

angela villalba holding a sugar skull

diana paxson holding her drum

z budapest holding naked ladies

ffijona morgan holding her daughers of the moon tarot cards

susun weed's hands in leaf litter and dirt

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motivation...

Blessed Are These Hands fulfills a vow to creatively capture the feminine face of the Holy and, in some small way, repay a debt to all women whose hands have embraced life and the constant battle for justice.