My Mother's Christmas Gift - Unexpected Decision

I've been quietly fretting about what to get my mom for Christmas, but Amazon has just provided a rather unlikely assist: Rosemary Radford Ruether's Goddesses and the Divine Feminine: A Western Religious History.

She and my aunt have turned into real seekers over the past couple of years, and they both were whole-heartedly engaged in my "The Lamp and the Mirror" class. As many of you are already aware, Ruether is a leading feminist theologian, and this book looks like it has the potential to be a great survey of the topic, without tipping over into the myth of matriarchy.

Actually, I've just gone back and ordered another copy for my aunt. They've been having a spiritual book club together, and I think this will be great for them.

I feel so subversive!
;-)

Deadly Australia

I saw this video on a friend's LJ, and as I watched it I could hear uncrowned_king howling with laughter all the way from the otherworld.

He'd had some bad experiences in Australia long ago and used to growl that "everything in the f*ing place can kill you -- even those damned koala bears!"

This is for you, my love. . . ;-)

Sorry, stucco33!

Yea!

Wolfling really likes my Star Wars fanfic that I sent her -- a re-write of A New Hope based on my group's RPG characters.

*does happy dance

The Annual First Sentence of Each Month Meme

Jan: I did not stay up last night to see in the new year.

Feb: There's still room on the brute squad for more volunteers. . .

March: lovetakesyouin, this is for you!

April: I found this while doing some Google image searches yesterday, and fell in love.


May: Yesterday I attended my first offsite meeting with my new team.

June: Yesterday [the one-year anniversary of uncrowned_king's death] was A Good Day -- and certainly less painful than Friday.

July: One of the appeals of the old fashioned road trip is, of course, the temporary illusion of being able to outrun whatever is wrong in your ordinary life. . . . or maybe just to abandon and outrun ordinary life itself for a little while.

Aug: One of the few things I have from uncrowned_king is a kukri knife.

Sept: [My personal inventory] is 10 pages long, although the last three pages are an extensive table of To-Do's with emotional reactions, perspective checks, and prioritization.

Oct: I'm still feeling physically wrung out, but last night I was told in no uncertain terms that I needed to do something for evening practice.

Nov: I've created a new community: me_and_my_tarot to run the class, which will be easier, I think, than spreading the lessons through my journal.

Dec: I'm 43 years old.

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