I always worry that I am going be kicked out of the progressive reading group. It’s not because I don’t read the books — I do. It’s because of the way my brain works. It’s very non-linear. I take one thing that is right in front of me and instantly my [...]

August 29th is my mom’s birthday.
In the Terminator movies, August 29th is Judgement Day.
August 29th…

When the Saints

Today is an intense day. When the sun rose early this morning, the moon was in a full eclipse. Today is also the full moon — the Corn Moon.
One website says:
This is the Full Moon to join with others and be lifted out of denial and ignorance. The world is suffering and we [...]

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You’ve seen my Green Man before. I posted about him here and here. He hangs on the wall by my front door. A gift from Ipsissimus, he gives me strength and he makes me smile.
Now I’d like to introduce you to another powerful symbol for me this year, the Hindu goddess Kali. [...]

From The Ravaged Bridegroom: Masculinity in Women by Marion Woodman:
As a woman becomes aware of her own chthonic (underworld) energy, she may feel herself resonating with the barbaric shadow energy of her father or mother. If she can own that destructive energy in herself, eat deeper of the apple of the Tree of Knowledge, she [...]

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Wow. What a great article!
From The Great American Media Mind Warp by Joe Bageant:
All Americans, regardless of caste, live in a culture woven of self-referential illusions. Like a holographic simulation, each part refers exclusively back to the whole, and the whole refers exclusively back to the parts. All else is excluded by this simulated reality. [...]

I’ve barely touched the flower bed around the tree in my back yard. I haven’t planted anything in it since last summer, and the mini rose bush didn’t survive.
I looked up this afternoon and saw this.

This flower came up out of nowhere.
A hello from someone I haven’t seen in a while…

Well. I got that out of my system.
I tossed it into the fire pit, with a sprig of white sage for good measure. Buh-bye.
I was worried that my sincere attempts to protect a friendship had backfired on me. Thankfully, it didn’t.
The ordeal I wrote about yesterday has made me realize that [...]

In reflecting upon my week here at chez Slurp, I thought back to my most recent encounter with Shameless’s stalker. As Shameless and I sat at the Fair trying to ignore the barely subtropical heat, her stalker made an appearance with her posse. What amuses me most is that her posse, rather than pointing [...]

I think I need to give you all the whole story on what happened with the stalker and her errand boy so that you can understand what I’ve been going through, how angry I am, and why my best friends are feeling and expressing such justifiable rage.
Back in May when I realized she [...]

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Giving people the finger. With my signature blue fingernail polish, of course.

On the day of the annual Slurpee Reunion and the commencement of the 4th Party Up in Here Week, Shadow/J and I were reflecting on some of our most favorite moments from 2006.
Behold (Shadow/J says Ecce), we give you our Top Ten list:
10. Discovering how wonderful J Crew flipflops are.
9. “Oooh, caramel apples!”
8. Shameless throwing [...]

I looked at the local paper yesterday and gasped. One of my favorite professors, Dr. Bob Haubrich, died on July 20th.
Dr. Haubrich taught in the Biology Department at Denison University. He was one of the most kind, most gentle people I have ever known. I took General Zoology from him [...]