Well, I'm in pre-publication, fallen-off-the-blogging-map freefall. The Lammas Issue of
MatriFocus is shaping up in peculiar ways. All the women writing about Cosmology just haven't (written) this time.
Kila's moving.
Boye's moving.
Bellezza? Overcommitted, I think. LOL. A whole section of the zine's gone missing. Cosmology. Hmmm.
On the other hand,
Johanna Stuckey's last installment of her four-part series on Inanna has some scholarly-speculative juice on the
huluppu as World Tree. A must read, coming soon!
Several other authors have been late in getting their articles in. I guess it's Summertime and the living is easy. It certainly has been that way around here.
Two weekends ago my beloved and I celebrated our 8th anniversary all weekend long. We had sweet times cooking and canoodling; we revisited our first kiss in the lake; we were surprised by an auction next door on Sunday morning, and spent a few hours hanging out there (my beloved with
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in hand); we discussed the state of the union. My beloved has an interesting tripod theory of relationships. Their health, or lack thereof, revolves around three things: sex, money, housekeeping. One of the three can be off it's a balancing act. Two can be off course correction called for; three can be off
Danger, Danger, Will Robinson! Our conclusion for Year Eight? Just keep on balancing. A very sweet, leisurely, loving weekend.
And then last weekend, we had a Summer PJ & Video Party. 24 hours, 7 women, 2 tents in the yard. Too much rain for a bonfire, but not enough to prevent a Sunday morning swim. The video theme this time (we have these parties about twice a year): Real Women. Our selections ran from musicals (Funny Girl, Sound of Music, Evita), to non-musical fictional treatments (Frida, Sylvia, The Josephine Baker Story, Erin Brockovich, Iron-Jawed Angels, Serving in Silence), to documentaries (Georgia O'Keefe, poets Sylvia Plath, Marianne Moore and Emily Dickinson, Speeches of Famous Women). Of course, we didn't watch them all!
The documentary hit of the event? Probably a toss-up between
Gap-Toothed Women:
A foray into the lives and thoughts of 40 women who share one physical trait - a space between their two front teeth. Besides such luminaries as actress/model Lauren Hutton, her Honor Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, singer/songwriter Claudia Schmidt and the legendary Wife of Bath, many other women share their varied experiences with their "gap."
(Yahoo Movies Review)And
Signs Out of Time: The Story of Archaeologist Marija Gimbutas:
Donna Read collaborated with Starhawk in her most recent endeavor,
Signs Out of Time, narrated by Olympia Dukakis. This video is a biographical glimpse of the Lithuanian-born, late, eminent archeologist, historian, scientist and linguist, Marija Gimbutas, whose work on Old European Neolithic cultures (6500-3500 BCE) will one day be seen as brilliant, when the current backlash against her washes away in the cleansing waters of time. Indeed, the current misaligning of her work can only be happening now because her work is threatening to the status quo of patriarchy that which insists on domination and power-over.
(Awakened Woman Review)Oh, and 24 hours? Yes, you heard right. It's a slumber party for adults. Popcorn, steaks, lasagna, blueberry pie, tea-time with exotic hot teas and even more exotic sandwiches, French toast and chicken sausages, lotsa soda and iced tea.
I particularly enjoyed the company, the discussions, and seeing both the
Sylvia Plath documentary and the movie
Sylvia back-to-back. Gwyneth Paltrow as Sylvia outstanding.
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