To talk about the feminine divine in today’s world, I think it is helpful to look at a basic definition of what sacred means. sacred adjective 1 the priest entered the sacred place: holy, hallowed, blessed, consecrated, sanctified, venerated, revered; archaic blest. 2 sacred music: religious, spiritual, devotional, church, ecclesiastical. ANTONYMS secular, profane. 3 the […]
I've Missed You
I miss this blog! I miss my readers. I miss my topics. In case you don’t know, I am working on a new site called the Women’s Legacy Project. It is more focused on a certain topic and a certain demographic than this free-for-all that is my life and my quest for a fair trade […]
Oceans and Amniotic Fluid
Pregnant women are often regaled with comments about the similarity of the stuff in their bellies cushioning their progeny to the ocean. Oceans and amniotic fluid do not have exactly the same salinity as is oft quoted as fact. Amniotic fluid has about 2% salinity. Oceans are 3.0 to 3.5% dissolved salts. All life does seem to […]
Names and Naming
Names are powerful. Most of us know that some cultures view personal names as so powerful that they are shared only with the closest immediate family members. But many things have names. A linguistics course taken long, long ago taught me about markedness, about marked and unmarked terms. In these oppositional pairs one term is […]
Mothers and Others, the Mosaic of Women in Our Lives
Mothers Mothers are probably the most influential people in the world. I am not sure that it was always this way for every culture in the world. In Sparta, mothers gave their sons over to the state to begin training as warriors at age seven. In upper class, historic, European families mothers did not nurse […]
Kith, Kin, and Kindred Souls
I have already written about family and friends in the set of articles I am writing as basic content about legacy in the first month of this site being live, so why would I also write about other words for family and friends, kin and kith? In the earlier article, about Family and Friendship in Legacy, I […]