Sophia's Portico

05/25/2026

THIS THURSDAY!
Join us this week, (and bring a kindred friend!) as we experiment, explore, and uncover our voices together - making space for the playful and the solemn, the predictable and the unpredictable.

This month we’ll also learn a new song by ear, carried to us from England and resonating beautifully here at the meeting of the Three Rivers.
Come sing, listen, and share in the circle.

It’s so very important to intentionally grant ourselves opportunities to gather with other women on the journey - mothers maidens and crones. Gifting ourselves the medicine, the pleasure, the relief of just BEING together.

Thursday 5/28 5:00-7:00pm
Sisters & Friends,

You’re warmly invited to an Intergenerational Village Supper & Sister Song Circle, held in Fort Wayne every last Thursday of the month. ✨

🌿 This year, our circle will be facilitated in a more co-creative way, rooted in the wisdom that we are the ones we’ve been waiting for. Each woman is invited to bring a short poem, reflection, dream, song, or piece of literature that moved her during the month, should she feel called to share.

🦋 This is a time for being together—to kindle our inner light, explore gentle mindfulness practices, and weave our voices in a safe, nurturing sisterhood.

🦋 All who identify as women are welcome, including mothers with children (all dependents welcome!). No musical experience needed. Together, we’ll share simple songs and mantras from cultures around the world.

✨ Details Below ✨
🌸What: Sister Song Circle + Potluck Supper
*Please bring a main dish to share
🌸When: Last Thursday of each month
🌸Time: 5:00–7:00 PM
🌸Where: Beacon Heights 2810 Beacon Street, Fort Wayne, IN 46805
🌸Contribution: $5 per family

*Children will eat with us, then enjoy a meaningful movie with a chaperone.

🌹 This offering is lovingly supported by three local, female-led organizations: Bridging Worlds, Sophia’s Portico, and Beacon Heights.

🌎 We honor all spiritual paths, respect the ancient tradition of women’s circles, and celebrate music and singing as heart medicine—so deeply needed in today’s world.

✨ Come as you are. Your voice matters. You belong. ✨

05/25/2026

"You are here to unravel the magic of being alive, the magic of being you. To heal, to feel whole again."✨🤗

This is a reminder to let you know that you are not here just to do stuff, just to perform duties and complete tasks.

You are here also to feel happy, and content, and inspired and well within yourself.

You are here to have some fun, create meaningful moments and find the sparkle in your eyes again.

You are here to unravel the magic of being alive, the magic of being you. To heal, to feel whole again.

Do something today that lights you up. That activates your joy. That brings about a genuine smile from your heart.

You are worth the effort.
~ S.C Lourie

~ Art by Sam Toft

05/18/2026

🌸🌵"And when her heart grew weary, the desert whispered:
You are not broken because you became strong. Even the cactus
flowers beneath pain." 🌵🌸

She Carries the Desert Within Her

She was not made
from soft rivers alone.

The desert shaped her too.

The burning sun
pressed its hands against her skin,
the wind carved silence into her bones,
and still
she stood.

Like the cactus blooming
where no one expects beauty,
she learned how to survive
on little tenderness.

People saw the thorns first.

They called her distant,
wild as untamed land,
hard to hold.

But they did not understand
that even the cactus
stores water for the driest days.

Inside her lived
a hidden tenderness,
cool as moonlit springs
buried beneath desert stone.

She loved carefully.
Deeply.
The way the earth loves rain
after years without it.

Mother Earth taught her this:

not every spirit is meant
to bend like grass.

Some are born
to endure storms,
to guard sacred things,
to bloom beneath unforgiving skies.

So she walked on,
through red canyons and sleeping plains,
her long black hair moving
like midnight smoke in the wind.

The ancestors watched her
from the quiet stars.

And when her heart grew weary,
the desert whispered:

You are not broken
because you became strong.

Even the cactus
flowers beneath pain.

So let them fear her edges.
Let them misunderstand her silence.

She knows who she is.

A daughter of dust and bloom.
A keeper of survival.
A woman rooted deep
in the fierce love
of the earth.

🎨 Art by Serin Alar

🖊️Poem: Piahn

05/16/2026

5/20🪘Drum Circle🪘

05/16/2026

5/21 🪷Zen Discussion Group🪷

05/14/2026

🔮INTRODUCTION TO CRYSTALS🔮
DATE: Tuesday, May 19, 2026
TIME: 6:30 – 8:00pm
PLACE: Sophia’s Portico
COST: $20
(Payment made at event by cash, check or via PayPal & QR code)

💎Crystals are aesthetic, mystical, healing & supportive.💎
Join me for an introduction to crystals class where we will explore crystal energy, how to choose and work with stones, and simple ways to use them for intention, balance and spiritual connection.
Perfect for beginners or anyone wanting to deepen their connection with crystals.

👩🏽‍🎨PRESENTER: Dianne Dunfee has been exploring crystals and their energy for over 25 years.
She enjoys sharing her knowledge. She is trained in Crystal Healing from Hibiscus Moon Academy and a Reiki Master and Shamanic practitioner.

05/13/2026

"We go looking for a wisdom that’s wilder and wiser than our own."

Where do we go, when we’re lost - when the humans around us (much as we love them) can’t seem to help us?

We go where we’ve been taught to forget to go.

Where our ancestors have always gone.

To the woods and the old ways.

To the hedgelands and edgelands; to the threshold places and liminal zones.

We go looking for the Others who dwell there; we go listening for the murmurs of the dreaming land.

We go looking for a wisdom that’s wilder and wiser than our own.

~ Sharon Blackie


Art by Tarn Ellis

05/11/2026

"Today,
I will be courageous enough to be seen,
and brave enough to be real."

Morning Affirmation

Today,
I will be vulnerable,
say the true things,
ask for what I need,
and let someone see me.

Vulnerability is the deepest
form of strength.
It is how real connection happens.
It is how I become whole.

The world needs my authentic self.
Not the version I think is acceptable.
Not the version I think will be loved.
Only the real,
messy, and
honest me.

Today,
I will be courageous enough to be seen,
and brave enough to be real.

✍️ Rivers in the Ocean

05/11/2026

Tomorrow!!
✨MEET THE GODDESS SERIES✨
Part 3

Come and Meet Flora!
DATE: Tuesday, May 12, 2026
TIME: 6:30–8pm
PLACE: Sophia’s Portico
COST: $20

TO REGISTER Please Email:
📧kuanyin011@frontier.com
or Call:
☎️260-482-7402
(SPACE IS LIMITED)

At our third Meet the Goddess, we will engage with Flora, the Roman Goddess of flowers and spring.

Please bring ways you've interacted with Flora and with springtime, and any questions you have!
No experience needed for the art activity and all materials will be supplied.

Thank you, Flora, for blessing our springtime growth!

👩🏽‍🎨Presenter: Lisa Gardner - an artist and expressive arts facilitator.
She is an avid researcher of Celtic and Northern European goddesses.

05/10/2026

Happy Mother's Day to all that Mother! 💐💝 🌹🤗

Mothering

a state of being
giving of oneself
not by design
but by desire
by a deep need to do good
to help
to stand by
and hold in the heart
the gaps in the field of dreams
making possible
a path to be walked with ease

Mothering

yes, this is what mothering is
not gender based
but heart based
man or woman,
anyone can mother
anyone can wake up at 3AM
and hold a baby
when crying
anyone can be giving
anyone can the thoughtful
and offer words of love
make a meal
read a book

Mothering

is about weaving life
taking strands of hope
and braiding them in the souls
of all that cross paths
sensing what is missing
and making an effort
to mend the holes of despair

is not about giving birth
but about standing there
day in and day out
when the skies are blue
or the skies are dark
when it rains and when the sun shines

Mothering

a calling
a devotion to self
to others
to Mother Earth
birthed from the place within
where giving, nurturing feels good
where sacrifice is honored
not looked down upon

for I was never a mother
but I mother everyday

and so do you
if give of yourself
if you pay attention
if you hold in heart
the small
the wounded
the strong
and the furry
when mothering our parents...

I love you all...
all that mother
all that offer the gift of giving...
all that look after Mother Earth
our great Mother!

Happy Mother's Day to all that Mother! 💗🌹

I love you,
Corina~~~

Photo: "Weaving Life" and was created by artist Annie Hamman