Jan. 4th, 2006

qos: (Alleged QoS)
Every year I buy myself at least one "quotable women" day-at-a-time calendar. This year's is Fabulous Broads. Some of the quotes are inspirational, some snarky, some just funny.

This morning's quotation is from the irrepressible Phyllis Diller:

If your house is really a mess and a stranger comes to the door, greet him with, "Who could have done this? We have no enemies."

I'll have to remember that one. ;-)
qos: (Defying Gravity)
I was listening to this song while doing my cardio workout the other day. It's been a favorite of mine for years, and suddenly struck me as being something that some of my friends here might enjoy.


The Woman in the Moon

I was warned as a child of thirteen
Not to act too strong
Try to look like you belong but don't push, girl
Save your time and trouble
Don't misbehave.
I was raised in a "No You Don't" world
Overrun with rules
Memorize your lines and move as directed.
That's an age old story
Everybody knows that's a worn out song.
But you and I are changing that tune
We're learning new rhythms from the woman
I said the woman in the moon.
Little sister, little brother
Keep on pushin'
Don't believe a word about
Things you heard about
Askin' too much too soon
'Cause they can hold back the tide
But they can never hold the woman in the moon.

I believe there's a best of both worlds
Mixing old and new
Recognizing change is seldom expected.
As I long suspected
They believed that strange was a word for wrong
Well not in my song.
'Cause you, you and I are changing that tune
We're learning new rhythms from that woman in the moon.
Little sister, little brother
Keep on pushin'
Don't believe a word about
Things you heard about
Askin' too much too soon
'Cause they can hold back the tide
But they can never hold the woman
I said the woman in the moon...


It's performed by Barbra Streisand in A Star is Born.
qos: (Inanna)
I was just going through some old notebooks and found "Song for Persephone," dated October 29, 2002.

What follows -- behind the cut -- grew out of my own experiences with a "Dark God" lover (or two), the discussion of Persephone as archetype in Jean Shinoda Bolen's Goddesses in Everywoman, a half-forgotten poem about Persephone with Hades as her black-leather biker boyfriend, and my friend [livejournal.com profile] bookchick's assertion that Persephone wasn't kidnapped. She went with Hades "because he was hot."

As I retype this now, exactly as it came from my pen, unedited, more than three years ago, I see it isn't entirely consistent -- or shall I simply assert that, like many myths, it simply reflects the paradoxes of Mystery?

Persephone )
qos: (Galadriel Vision)
Paging further into my journal, I find this quotation from Robertson Davies, excerpted from a lecture of his called "Literature in a Country Without Mythology":

Mythology is the way in which a particular people has chosen to state its experience, not to impress other people but in the hope of understanding itself.


Which pretty much sums up most of my fictional writing.


And if you haven't read Davies' Sixth Business, you should.
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