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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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My sister and I had a wonderful two-week vacation, full of simple things — cooking, reading, movie-watching, talking, berry picking, gardening. We did some scrap-booking, some laughing, some grieving. My beloved took her shopping a couple of times; we had the 90-year-old ring our grandmother gave her repaired and resized; she got a sassy hairdo.
Some not-so-simple experiences, too: an early-morning ceremony by the lake, fulfilling a 16-year old wish of our mother's; a brief sister-fight that morphed into an opportunity to love each other more, to know each other better; and one of my wishes fulfilled — a new blog for a sister finally ready to give it a try, a place to explore a particular kind of healing, the search for joy.
If you're inclined, stop by
Finding Joy and welcome a new blogger to the blogosphere.
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Goddess ReligionThe Spirit is the life of the life of all creatures;
the way in which everything is penetrated with connectedness and relatedness;
a burning fire who sparks, ignites, inflames, kindles hearts;
a guide in the fog; a balm for wounds; a shining serenity;
an overflowing fountain that spreads to all sides.
She is life, movement, color, radiance, restorative stillness in the din.
Her power makes all withered sticks and souls green again with the juice of life.
She purifies, absolves, strengthens, heals, gathers the perplexed, seeks the lost.
She pours the juice of contrition into hardened hearts.
She plays music in the soul, being herself the melody of praise and joy.
She awakens mighty hope, blowing everywhere the winds of renewal in creation.
(Hildegarde von Bingen, Scivias via Max Dashu)Within the study of mythology, female figures have too often been viewed reductively, purely in terms of their sexual function and thus confined in a catch-all category labelled fertility. (Carolyne Larrington's "Introduction" to The Feminist Companion to Mythology)
...the apple grew wild in ancient times on the Southern shores of the Black Sea.... (p. 261, ch. XV, Robert Grave's The White Goddess)
Many are the wand-bearers, few are the Bacchoi. (Plato's Phaedra)
Mother NatureAnother world is not only possible, she's on her way. Maybe many
of us won't be here to greet her, but on a quiet day, if I listen very carefully, I can hear her breathing.
(Arundhati Roy)We blog to know we are not alone.
(Sage Starwalker, paraphrasing Shadowlands)The utility of blogging ... is that it is recreating the lost world of a humanity that is connected to itself and hence to everything.
(Robert Paterson's Weblog)The next generation of theologians will start as bloggers.
(They Blinked)
A marriage is a struggle, basically, to learn to really trust another person even though that person is flawed. The only way you can do it is to give all that you have and not keep score.
(Whitley Strieber)At this point in my relationship with the holy, I find myself not coming away to engage the holy, but entering into instead; entering
into natural processes, the forest, etc., recognizing the connectedness of all creation, contemplating smaller and smaller portions of
creation, and recognizing that all of creation is present in all of creation.
(Betty Berlenbach (Episcopal Priest), as quoted in ch. 5 "Contented Soul," Bernadette Murphy's Zen and the Art of Knitting)
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Several months ago I posted a proverb I learned from the movie,
City of Joy:
All that is not given is lost. (India)
and had a brief discussion with
Radical Druid about "what are our pagan proverbs."
At the time, he shared one he created:
We are not lost here in these woods, nor are they lost in us.
(North America)I love that one. It lives in me.
I have since looked for and noticed sayings that I thought could be pagan proverbs, or could be adopted as pagan proverbs. And I still ask myself what they say about our thinking, our spirit, our common beliefs, practices, and values.
I posted a few on my sidebar, but recently I've noticed how my sidebars dominate my blog page. So, a little house cleaning, and as for my Pagan Proverbs collection? Wisdom speaks:
Just post them, grrl.So to clean out the sidebar, here's the last of them:
Yes! A great proverb to counter BWS (Busy Witch Syndrome).
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Plant community metaphors for human community models fascinate me. Mayapples, birches, and now mushrooms are on my brain. I'm co-leading a
workshop on "Building Women's Spiritual Community" with
Rae Atira-Soncea in the fall. I'm sure to work these plant metaphors / models into the mix. If you have relevant plant lore to suggest, please leave a comment!
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Last night, I survived
War of the Worlds.
As Kate said recently in a comment: "If I said more I'd have to say too much."
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You'll have to read it to believe it, but I'll say this — no wonder big cats were so often associated with goddesses.
Lions Rescue & Guard Beaten Girl
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I've been visiting with my sister, who's here from Texas for two weeks. We've been working on
Cobi's scrapbook, but it goes like this: be creative and productive for a few minutes, then break out crying, then reminisce, then talk about life and meaning, then take a break from scrapbooking until the next day.
Cobi's favorite board game was Monopoly. One afternoon when he was here a few summers ago, we were playing Monopoly and I kept landing on Go and/or missing his expensive Boardwalk and Park Place properties. After awhile he looked up at me and asked, accusingly, "Are you using magic to do that?" I wanted to laugh, but didn't. I explained that I wasn't doing formal magic of any kind, but I did point out that whenever I got close to that part of the board I would say something like "Go, go, go" when I was shaking my dice. An interesting conversation about the power of positive thought ensued.
Today, I stumbled across
Monopoly Live, an online Monopolgy game. I probably won't play; my computer time will get spent elsewhere. But for those of you with time, the body for a long stint in your chair, and some positive thinking,
prizes are awarded. The main prize? One year's rent or mortage paid for you. But if you're gonna do it, you better hurry. Apparently this prize is for the promotion period only: 20 June to 17 July 2005.
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