Can Prayer Bring Word Peace?
LET US PRAY FOR WORLD PEACE
Energetically:
Join Daily Fifteen-Miinute Global Meditation for Peace
11 AM San Francisco 7 PM UK 9 PM Moscow
In-Person:
Ashland, Oregon, USA
Mondays & Wednedays at 5 PM
First Presbyterian Church
1615 Clark Avenue/Siskiyou & Walker
Celebrate the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Ashland, Oregon, USA
Sunday 9 November 2025
First Presbyterian Church
10 AM Church Service
11 AM Celebration with Videos & German Chocolate Cake
ALL ARE WELCOME
Prayer Is Our Power
Every act of focused engagement supported by honest intention is an act of Love, an act of Prayer, an act of Praise of the Great Unknowable Source of our Being, which delights in the expression of Its Self and in the expanding of Its Self and in the feeling of Its Self within Its Self and within Its Creation.
Little Books with Big Messages for Those Who Refuse to Grow Up
Available on Amazon – click on the book cover for more info.
A Bear with One Hair on a Stair with No Chair
The Story of a Bear with an Attitude
Tall Funny Bunny and Bea and Me
A cautionary Tale for Dessert Lovers
MIRIAM REED
As Writer & Researcher
I have had the privilege of discovering and discussing the power of the Feminine.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony learned from Native American societies and had the courage to defy convention and embody their new concepts. Louisa May Alcott conquered self-sabotage and society to provide for her entire family. Margaret Sanger nailed spot on how women’s excessive childbearing fueled the patriarchal agenda, and so she is today to be written out of history. But the power of the Feminine is the power of Life and will never be silenced.
I have also in been able to bring into print The Orient Trilogy, the rich story of the David B. Gamble Family tour in 1908 of Japan, China, and Korea—three volumes that offer personal and on-site accounts of a rapidly changing world. The reader of today can share the witnessed experiences of the Gambles in 1908 and consider from the standpoint of the Twenty-First Century what has been gained, what has been lost.
As Scriptwriter & Actor
With my solo plays, I presented the lives of powerful pioneering women, independent thinkers, who left to mothers and their daughters a legacy of political and personal empowerment.
Susan B. Anthony, once she understood the necessity for change at the political rather than the personal level, devoted her entire life and her boundless energies to giving women the vote. Despite the hatred of many conservative women, she became in her own lifetime an America hero of national and international fame.
Louisa May Alcott once wanted to be an actress. But through sheer grit, she pulled herself and her family out of poverty and debt. By her wits and unceasing labor, she supported them all, and she was the first woman to vote in the Concord School Election.
Margaret Sanger spearheaded legal contraception and a woman’s right to own her body. Seeing her own mother die of consumption at age fifty—after eighteen pregnancies—and, as a public nurse, observing the effects of yearly pregnancies on exhausted women and sickly infants, fueled her determination to make a difference in
women’s lives, to give women control over their lives as mothers.
Regarding Margaret Sanger
Margaret Sanger demanded that every child be a wanted child.
Margaret Sanger taught that the birth of a child was to be planned and prepared for. Contraception allowed this. Margaret Sanger never condoned, never advocated abortion. To say that she did so is a lie and has absolutely no documented evidence.
When Margaret Sanger learned that a committee of male Eugenicists were to decide who were to be parents, she severed herself from that affiliation. The mother, only the mother is to decide when and under what circumstances a child is to be born.
Margaret Sanger was buried, at her request, by the side of her black maid, Daisy. Margaret Sanger desired for all women of all color the right to choose her time for motherhood. Margaret Sanger worked to give to black women the same advantages she offered white women, the right to decide when and under what circumstances her child was to be brought into the world.
No less than Martin Luther King, Jr. acknowledged the legacy of Margaret Sanger: the right of women to control their own bodies and so to be the best mothers possible, the right of all children to be loved and wanted and valued.
Review of
Louisa May Alcott:
Living “Little Women”
Living “Little Women” is a gem. Informative, entertaining, delightful, and moving, it is a must-see for fans of Louisa May Alcott and those with an interest in American history and the women who lived and shaped it.
—Rebecca Carey
Head of Voice & Text
Oregon Shakespeare Festival,
Ashland, OR
SOLO PLAYS Scripts for Sale
The world is so full of a number of things, I am sure we should all be as happy as kings.
– Robert Louis Stevenson
