Create a beautiful, mystical garden space around a sculpture, chimes, or entryway. Ask your favorite vision tool, "What energy wishes to be expressed here?" Choose flower colors that soothe you, enlighten you, or create rapture within your soul. What life passage moment stands out to you in your life story? Enter the gates to angelic dimensions in a mystical garden of your own creation. Meditation can be a walk on fragrant pathways of herbs, or in a private outdoor sanctuary to sit and think. Use this book as your guide. Welcome to the "Gardens of the Sisterhood."

Experience the "unbearable lightness of being" with Mary O'Dell's Light, Following or creatively examine writer's block with B.J. Bateman's Seventy-Five Percent Mental. Suspend your day to day routine and come with us on an adventure of life and living through the stories and poetry of Calliope 2010: the 17th Anthology. Calliope is published annually by Women Who Write, the premier women's writing group in Louisville, Kentucky. This edition features the six winning entries of our annual International Short Prose & Poetry Contest. We have also included selected prose and poetry of Women Who Write members, several of whom have been published locally and regionally in the pages of Underwired Magazine, The Heartland Review, Peeks and Valleys, Willard & Maple, InHealthNW, and The Easterner, the New Albany Tribune, and the Evening News. Contributing members have also had their works performed at the Actor's Theatre of Louisville, The Kentucky Center for the Arts Mex Theatre, University of Louisville Theatre and Market House Theatre. Founded in 1992, Women Who Write is a non-profit organization of women writers dedicated to excellence n literary creation by women. This book is in part, a fulfillment of our mission to welcome, encourage, support and educate women who aspire to write. For more information visit our Web site at www.womenwhowrite.com or look for us on Facebook.