Over the course of four months, I sat with seven women — artists, caregivers, organizers, and revolutionaries — who have spent years living on the Outer Cape. They range in age from 60s to 80s, and they have shaped their communities in ways both public and deeply personal. What they offered in conversation — over lunch at SKIP, in living rooms, and around kitchen tables with hot tea and ripe cantaloupe — felt closer to incantation than instruction.