by her book When Women Were Drummers. She will be missed her on Planet Earth.

and I had been waiting for it, versus trying to find a copy of the print version (it's out of print.) Maybe my library has a copy.

Do you play a drum? I'm interested, yet I know my sense of rhythm is lacking. Still, I do love Layne's style of frame drum playing and the way she could make those mesmerizing rhythms with a tambourine. She taught and inspired many people, so we'll see them continuing her work to some extent.

Very inspiring, thank you for sharing. I'm sorry to hear that she has passed on.

You might want to look for her music, especially the album Invoking Aphrodite. The chants are from her research into Ancient Greece, and are chanted in the original Greek. It's quite interesting and powerful. Her research also helped her discover that those ancient drummers were the keepers of the bees. I think all of her blogs are still up, and linked to her main site. There's one just on the Bee Priestess, called "Sacred Path of the Bee."

I never met her, though I did trade emails a couple of times. She was always sweet and happy to converse (I think I made her day in one of them when I mentioned I had played her album "Since the Beginning" on public radio; she truly appreciated the airtime.) Yet, I felt touched by her work, and realizing that she is gone is still difficult to believe. Her music inspired and just plain entranced.