My Take on Holiday Sadness A huge hurt builds inside me. My father died on Christmas Day 1986. It is a familiar, old hurt. This past year freshly layered that hurt with new hurts and loss. All four of my brothers have passed on. One in 1998, another in 2005. Mom died in […]
Sunday Week in Review #1
My Goddess, what a week! This week has stretched me to my perceptual limits. No this post is not about drugs. The breadth of my interests have always confused me. I am unsure whether I have an attention deficit or I have renaissance-paced interests in a digitally-paced world. Last weekend was a TWB blogging work […]
Family Bibles and Sugar Skulls
The harvest in, food is abundant, and there is time to feast and remember. The day for all souls, a day for the living, and a day for the dead.
Autumnal Thoughts
Seasons change. I am ready to embrace autumn. I live in the southwestern United States. I am ready for lessened intensity. I want to experience the gentle warmth of the season and the lengthened slant of light that provides respite from intensity. Leaves even turn to the traditional colors northerners expect if you visit higher […]
Iconic Y: You Are Iconic
You knew this was coming, didn’t you? I want to make sure that if you are reading this, and are a woman of any sort, that you know you are an Iconic Woman, and that you are iconically feminine. You have control over this. Words are powerful and whatever you see yourself as, whatever you […]
Iconic K: Kindred Kali
“The phrase “kindred spirit” evokes for women who grew up reading the stories of the adventures and misadventures of Anne Shirley Anne Shirley a young woman, an orphan, who desperately wants to have a shared relationship that is a true and lasting connection between people as deep as a connection of kin but as individually affirming […]