Cheryl Kolander

Grew up in Berkeley, California. Went to LeConte, Willard, Berkeley High, graduated 1963; UC Berkeley while still in High School. Attended Friends Meeting regularly. 11th grade in Goteburg, Sweden and the summer at the Sorbonne, Paris. Later went to Israel and worked at Kibbutz Ga'Aton in Western Galilee. UC Berkeley and later National College of Naturopathic Medicine, Portland Oregon. Did a 10 year spiritual retreat and micro-organic farm work in the rural foothills of Myrtle Creek, Oregon. Now live in Portland, Oregon. Business for 49 years: Aurora Silk, see at www.aurorasilk.com. Non-profit for 40 years: "Mama D.O.C." , devoted to Natural Health.

Senior Master Natural Dyer and silk weaver. Books include: "A Silkworker's Notebook", 1979, paperback 1985, 3 rd edition 2001. "Brilliant Colours on Silk", a Natural Dye workshop manuel. "HEMP! for Textile Artisits" 1995, now an ebook on Etsy. Poetry and pictures: "Working Words" 1978; "Dancing Darvisha" (O'Z) 2009; "Stones that Talk" (Ellora, India) 2010; "Nutrinoville in O'Z", 2013, = theory of gravity, light transmission and a definition of God that even a pure atheist can embrace. All books self published by "Mama D.O.C." except 1985 paperback of the Silk book.