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Book that Everyone, especially Pagans and Creationists and, in particular, Ami_B:
"Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth" by William Bryant Logan.
It is awesome. It's like, theological geology, or something. It's all about the Land! It's awesome! The author keeps talking about Adam as though he were literal truth rather than mythological Truth, but aside from that, it's actually very, very Pagan.
It's also very, very "get your hands into the dirt". It's awesome. :-)
Excerpt:
"How can I stand on the ground every day and not feel its power? How can I live my life stepping on this stuff and not wonder at it?" (P.2).
"We spend our lives hurrying away from the real, as though it were deadly to us. 'It must be somewhere up there on the horizon,' we think. And all the time it is in the soil, right beneath our feet." (P. 97).
It's very cool. Everyone should pick it up. :-)
In other news.:
I really want the tension on my sewing machine to work.
I've got a good idea for a cute skirt (black-on-black herringbone circle skirt w/ a purple lining and a bit of a crinoline attached there-to, possibly with purple velvet ribbon trim, plus a counter-dirrectional (virtical stripes, rather than horizontal) wide waist-band... I think it would be cool).
I think I could whip it off in a couple of hours (maybe less), but I'm not sure how well the stitches would hold up when they're as loose as they sometimes are...
I think I'll have to get out the manual again. (I think it's the bobbin tension that's the problem, and I'm not sure how to adjust that...)
In still further news:
I got to see my friend Amanda last night. Hurrah! :-D She's moving to Toronto next week. Yeep! So it was good to see her before she goes.
I gave her a cucumber from my garden, and a piece of petrified wood. :-)
She gave me a book called the Goddess Book of Days (from-which the month of November is missing -- not her fault, but I would have liked to see if anything fell on my birthday other than me. ;-) and she also returned a the books that I've lent her over the past year or so. :-)
We had coffee, and went for a walk around the museum of nature. (I'd like to see their ice-age mamals exhibit...) It was really nice. :-)
Also of note: I have this neat idea (and, alas, lack the pottery skills to make it happen) for a tea set that would be based on Squash.
There would be a butternut shaped coffee pot, a pumpkin (or, perhaps, a hubbard) for the tea pot, a carnival squash (one of the miniature pepper squashes) for the sugar bowl and a miniature "turk's turban" for the creamer. I think the cups would all look like squash blossoms (or baby buttercup squashes) and the saucers would be squash leaves. The handles would be vines, and the spouts would probably be vines too, so that the stems could be the lid handles.
I now want this (currently quite fictional) tea set. Anyone out there really good at making stoneware? :-)
(Not that I have money, but maybe I could go on the instalment plan... ;-)
Anywhoo.
I'm currently covered in clay (well, my face is) and need to take a shower. So I'm off to do that. :-)
- Nam'ara,
- Amazon. :-)
"Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth" by William Bryant Logan.
It is awesome. It's like, theological geology, or something. It's all about the Land! It's awesome! The author keeps talking about Adam as though he were literal truth rather than mythological Truth, but aside from that, it's actually very, very Pagan.
It's also very, very "get your hands into the dirt". It's awesome. :-)
Excerpt:
"How can I stand on the ground every day and not feel its power? How can I live my life stepping on this stuff and not wonder at it?" (P.2).
"We spend our lives hurrying away from the real, as though it were deadly to us. 'It must be somewhere up there on the horizon,' we think. And all the time it is in the soil, right beneath our feet." (P. 97).
It's very cool. Everyone should pick it up. :-)
In other news.:
I really want the tension on my sewing machine to work.
I've got a good idea for a cute skirt (black-on-black herringbone circle skirt w/ a purple lining and a bit of a crinoline attached there-to, possibly with purple velvet ribbon trim, plus a counter-dirrectional (virtical stripes, rather than horizontal) wide waist-band... I think it would be cool).
I think I could whip it off in a couple of hours (maybe less), but I'm not sure how well the stitches would hold up when they're as loose as they sometimes are...
I think I'll have to get out the manual again. (I think it's the bobbin tension that's the problem, and I'm not sure how to adjust that...)
In still further news:
I got to see my friend Amanda last night. Hurrah! :-D She's moving to Toronto next week. Yeep! So it was good to see her before she goes.
I gave her a cucumber from my garden, and a piece of petrified wood. :-)
She gave me a book called the Goddess Book of Days (from-which the month of November is missing -- not her fault, but I would have liked to see if anything fell on my birthday other than me. ;-) and she also returned a the books that I've lent her over the past year or so. :-)
We had coffee, and went for a walk around the museum of nature. (I'd like to see their ice-age mamals exhibit...) It was really nice. :-)
Also of note: I have this neat idea (and, alas, lack the pottery skills to make it happen) for a tea set that would be based on Squash.
There would be a butternut shaped coffee pot, a pumpkin (or, perhaps, a hubbard) for the tea pot, a carnival squash (one of the miniature pepper squashes) for the sugar bowl and a miniature "turk's turban" for the creamer. I think the cups would all look like squash blossoms (or baby buttercup squashes) and the saucers would be squash leaves. The handles would be vines, and the spouts would probably be vines too, so that the stems could be the lid handles.
I now want this (currently quite fictional) tea set. Anyone out there really good at making stoneware? :-)
(Not that I have money, but maybe I could go on the instalment plan... ;-)
Anywhoo.
I'm currently covered in clay (well, my face is) and need to take a shower. So I'm off to do that. :-)
- Nam'ara,
- Amazon. :-)
