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Wake up! It's time!

"For the first time in history, enormous numbers of women are traveling through the gate of menopause and looking forward to a life span of some 30 more years. And we women have a certain hard-won wisdom, gleaned through consciously processing the experiences of our long and fruitful lives. What are we going to do with this wisdom? Play golf? Get our hair done? We begin to glimpse the opportunity, and the responsibility."

Ann Kreilkamp, Founder, Crone Chronicles

The patriarchal culture's valuation of the female is based on the youthful beauty of her bodily appearance, her "image." By this measure, the older a woman becomes, the less she is valued. Rather than accepting our culture's devaluation of women as they age, Crone Chronicles was founded to transform our way of understanding the aging process altogether.

To understand the Crone stage of life consciously is to look beyond appearances to reality, the reality of a long full life, through which much learning has been gleaned. To evaluate the Crone stage of life consciously is to see this phase as the crowning glory, the time when a woman enters into her full maturity, inside and out. By this new (and very ancient) measure, the Crone is the most revered stage of life, rather than the least; she is the most honored, not the most ignored. Distilling wisdom from experience, her words, attitudes and actions can now serve as examples to others.

Click here to read Ann Kreilkamp's farewell article offering her beliefs and her sense of urgency in regard to the ageism of our society.