Elizabeth Alberda was born in Marblehead in 1944, from a mother born in Salem, Massachusetts. She was baptized by water from the River Jordan, carried home by her uncle who served in WWII. All five kids lived on Washington Street ten minutes from the wharf! She says, "My first dream: 3 years old dressed in a silk slip, dancing under the stars in the middle of Washington Street until a judge in a long black robe ran after me. Right after attending the Old North Church, we would climb the hill in our clickety-clack patent leather shoes where my great-grandmother lived on Pearl Street. It was Easter. Before entering, I stepped over her little boulder beach stones squatting before the yellow crocus, small enough in ego to listen to a flower." After college, she taught at a Folk High School in Skive, Denmark. The next journey was graduating from Syracuse University with a M.A. At Delta Community College, she taught American Indian Literature and Mysticism. The wonderment in nature laid down a trail toward writing poetry. Peggy Rubin, creator of Sacred Theater and Dr. Jean Houston creator of the Mystery School brought her group to Egypt. She feels deep gratitude to these teachers, the players in Sacred Theater, and her family.