This dose of the Good (and Not So Good) Words is going to take a while because I plan to fold together Ash Wednesday, Valentine’s Day, Vday, violence against women, generational violence, cranes (live and paper) and art. I do not have a pattern, so I am not sure what we will end up with. [...]
[Note, I wrote this on Sunday but am posting it on Monday]. New Years fall on many different days, in many different seasons. The upcoming New Year in our calendar is just one of many. Yet despite the somewhat arbitrary turning of the year, it is potent and portent. It is a time of ritual, [...]
The holidaze is/are mainly over, though I imagine that some still may be recovering from the late (all) night debauchery of New Year’s Eve. Granted, the twelve days of Christmas aren’t over until January 6th’s “The Epiphany of Our Lord Jesus Christ.” While the lingering days of Christmas are important in some Christian traditions, for [...]
I suspect that at some point I enlightened/bored y’all with the story of my damn December Doldrums. Historically, even in more sunny than not Florida, I have had a hard time in December. My sleep schedule flips; I play hours and hours and hours of computer games, which is not part of my “normal” life [...]
On Wednesday, I started a fast by cleaning up cat puke. I could not hurry due to my back injury. I had to slowly lower myself down to the floor. I had to slowly shift for one spot of vomit to the next to wipe it all up. There was a god awful lot of [...]
Tomorrow, I will fast. Today, while I didn’t get my freak on, I indulged myself. Most of these indulgences will not be Lent behind, though a few will. I chose to revel in the pleasures of the world. I imagined my life today as a slow moving Mardi Gras parade. Slow moving because I still [...]
In my browsing of Wikipedia for information on Valentine’s Day, I learned about the Roman holiday Lupercalia. Lupercalia was celebrated from February 13th to 15th. During the Ides of February, after a little ritual sacrifice of a couple of goats and a dog, and a bit of feasting, young men dressed in next to nothing, [...]