“What we are doing has great historical significance. Never underestimate the significance of what you are doing,” says Ann Cook, official photographer of the Glastonbury Goddess Conference for all of its 30 years. The crowd of reddish-garbed Goddesses/Goddess-lovers—each with her own unique personal take on this year’s color family, from red to pink to peach to purple, signifying the year’s theme of “Sacred Union”— soaks in her words, some in hushed appreciation, some with exuberant cheers.
Ann will be 90 yeras old in December. I am grateful I got to overlap with her during my first year at this legendary conference. Nine decades of kindness, humor, and wisdom were evident in each word she spoke; tears poured down
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