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Watch the Sister's choices of names closely too, and you will often see Biblical verse references, regional names that are feminized, and other interesting information. S. Ani always liked us to have a female name then male name for "equality in spirit" but again, I did not insist on this in latter groups.
I hope you enjoy what these women have put together for your edification.
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Copyright Rev. Lyn D. Black, 08/2006 |
Each
of the
Chapel Entry pages are meant to inspire the reader in a spiritual
manner, be uplifting, make you think about a topic or perhaps just make a person laugh... and are a tribute
to the late Sister Ani Eden. We are women from
diverse backgrounds and belief systems. We hope our visitor
comes with an "open mind" instead of a "closed heart", so
they may enjoy our efforts.
You
will find that much of the artwork used in the
#1 Chapel Collection pages was taken
from my purchased software, as will be stated, except such as on this page
where there was not space on the image itself. Most appear to have come from
old Christmas and postcards with the great respected works of such as,
William Bouguereau of 100 years ago. Other works are from my own, or the
submitting Sister's, photography. I discouraged private photos that might be
stolen like happens on the Internet. I have been very careful to try and make sure
these were all legal. This practice continued through subsequent groups...
me trying to be sure that nothing was used that infringed on anybody's
rights.
Now
the goal of page design, was to have the top have a chapel name picked by that Sister and
an identification number. The style of Chapel name in the first group, was what S. Ani
favored but I do not know why she preferred to have the "Chapel" part
first and I did not insist this way for the other subsequent chapels and sisters.
Sister Ani always insisted on a
non deplume on the e-list board,
so that no Sister felt intimidated by another... she wanted all on equal
footing and I have done the same in this project with few exceptions...
plus I did so, to make sure no Sister could be traced by anybody outside
the group. After all this will be 'open' on the Internet, for anybody to look at
and I was keen to protect these women from "trolls". I
am a touch paranoid about protecting those represented on this site.
Then
there was then a brief "something" written into the
main body. Then I asked for a photo
for the right side (or vice versa), most women though, just gave me an idea of what they
wanted and I tried to find a good match that met their approval. As you
will see, this layout was not written in stone... each sister had to be
happy with their Chapel, before it could go into this project. This
practice has continued as well, as the groups continued to grow in
number... many asked me to find them a picture or artwork, that matched
their idea.
Each
chapel, when all are averaged together,
took about an hour average to accomplish for each one, after
I had gathered the data for that page. Some were done in
about 15 minutes from computer experienced sisters, while some might
take hours over a couple days, of us going back & forth, until the sister
was happy with what I did for her and her idea. The hardest part is when
a quote is used by 'anonymous'... to find out who actually said
it. There are an awful lot of people out there on the Internet, trying
to take credit where it is not due! Here though is why each sister has
her chapel identification number and a password only known between us...
if she wants her page changed, that ID & password, tells me she is the
'real' person to that page.
Let there be no misunderstanding
however, for better or worse... "the buck stops here"; with
me deciding what was/is acceptable or not on this project. No
profanity. No pornography. No debasing of the human condition. No
political outbursts. I might be persuaded but I will never be
bullied or coerced, into accepting what I deem "out of place" to
this project. I had a goal in mind with doing this and
sometimes it was hard editing a great thought, but a thought that I
felt, just didn't suit being here for the goal I had in mind. Nor will
there be a page of 'rejects' as some have asked for... they were
rejected for a reason and have no place here even on a rejection page.
