“Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.”
Dagnabbit!!!!!!!! Book faeries are at it again :o( I have a book titled the y chromosome but can’t remember the author’s name. Anyhoo. It deals with how men are losing this essential part of their DNA. The video below reminded me of this. I’m off now to have a word or several with those pesky […]
Wiki : Ninon de l’Enclos Despite the MS History BS about Ninon, she’s always been a bit of a heroine to me. So much so that I named my range of hand-knits after her. I have two biographies and many articles about this famous “courtesan” and her life. So what drew me to her? […]
I’m one of those horrible, nasty (?!) people who ALWAYS sees the glass half full. A Natural Born Optimist who sees silver linings in the darkest of places :o) This week is gonna be strange but, ultimately, good. When we get triggered it is not a sign of something bad on the outside – […]
Lord only knows how I ended up with another duplicate on my shelves. Shrug! But I’ve read Chrétien de Troyes…twice…apparently! Anyway and by the by. The book I’m reading right now, written by the man who’s name I will NEVER type here – Describes the Fool Card – #0 in the Tarot – in many […]
Dunno ’bout y’all but I’m loving this social distancing vibe. Feck off and let ME do MY work. Oh, yes :o) The next monograph – being researched and written right now – is about how many goddesses are actually the same person. I’m starting in Egypt with Neith/Minerva/Athena. WikistickitupyourWiki : Neith Their attributes give […]
It is the fundamental urge of all living creatures to re-produce, to seek protection in the safety of numbers and to seek order through some form of social harmony. As human beings differ little from this, all over the world from the beginning of recorded time societies have existed, which have bound it’s population together […]
The White Crow, one-time Soldier-Scholar of the Invisible College and a practitioner of Hermetic science and magic, and Baltazar Casaubon, architect and lover, a man not too particular about his personal hygiene, are two of Mary Gentle’s finest creations. The worlds they stride across range from the Renaissance city where aristocratic rats rule the human […]
From whence cometh this primeval CALL to Arms? Wiki : Thunder Clap Motherwell F.C? Iceland? 300? With Gerard the Scottish actor who could NEVER quite Unholywood trained disguise his accent? IMHO – I don’t care. I LOVE THIS V iking V IBE :o)