Comments on Mapless: Women & God

Well, the anti-patriarchal thing has been going on...

2010-04-28T16:55:41.103-07:00

Well, the anti-patriarchal thing has been going on for so long now. But yeah, the book has refuelled it, definitely.

Glad you're reading it. I'll be interested to know what you think :)

I quit feeling guilty about the blog, but it took ...

2010-04-28T07:54:30.725-07:00

I quit feeling guilty about the blog, but it took a long time to get that way. You know, I averaged a post a day for almost 3 years, then it started tapering off. Life changes, healing, maturing, recognizing it for what it is. It's there when I need it and I know my friends still read it. I used to care about my blog's hit count (seems like a lifetime ago), now I just care about the relationships.

I wonder...does your renewed anti-patriarchal rebellion have anything to do with reading that book? I want you to know I just reserved it from the library, right this minute so I don't forget. I'll let you know when I have read it.

I'm surprised at how much this book has spoken...

2010-04-27T17:57:07.443-07:00

I'm surprised at how much this book has spoken to me. I came back to it thinking, "Oh yeah, yada yada yawn. This doesn't really apply to me anyway, living in the different countries we do and anyway, I've covered all of this stuff."

Yeah, right :) It's been great. I think you would definitely get something out of it.

I feel guilty for not blogging in some ways. All this bloody goddamned guilt! Sheesh!!!!!!!! :D

Life goes on, changes, morphs, doesn't ever stay quite the same.

It's good to, hear from you too, Barbara. I wi...

2010-04-26T06:39:31.879-07:00

It's good to, hear from you too, Barbara. I wish it was simpler for me to keep in touch here and with everyone on their blogs, because I miss it. But then, life goes on and we adapt. I guess. :)

Hello my friends! Sue - I need to read that book...

2010-04-26T06:37:09.550-07:00

Hello my friends!

Sue - I need to read that book. It's on my list, but for whatever reason I've never come to it.

I used to feel really apologetic about not posting for a day or two; now it seems like weeks go by. And it's not so much that I don't have anything to say, but such that being in school I'm not sitting around with all this time on my hands like I used to. So the leisure time to write seems to escape me more and more...and what I do have goes to CC...you know.

Sue's right (as ALWAYS) that its funny about h...

2010-04-25T18:23:44.575-07:00

Sue's right (as ALWAYS) that its funny about how we make excuses.

Its good to hear from you Erin! Sounds like you're busy with good stuff.

I'm sure there's still plenty of us here. ...

2010-04-22T21:20:36.557-07:00

I'm sure there's still plenty of us here.

Isn't it funny, the apologies we feel we need to make for being away from our blogs :)

I so often feel apologetic for my life being seasonal - for the periods of time where I am less available to those around me, or more available, or more inwardly focussed, or more outward, or blogging or not blogging. I feel tired of apologising for the seasons of my life :)

I am reading Dance of the Dissident Daughter at the moment, thinking a lot about the spiral of time, how we often travel back to where we have been before. I am revisiting concepts of patriarchy, recognising it WITHIN MYSELF, the things I have taken on board and accepted deep, those things that stop me from being myself. And so here goes another descent, down into some more unchartered waters, not knowing what is going on there, what is to be discovered, but easier - trusting the inner guidance of God/dess, knowing from gained experience that there is nothing to fear here.

We have come a long way, haven't we :)

Anyway, that's a bit of blah blah blah from me. I am very sleep deprived today. Trying to use it to my advantage, crafting a bit of a story while in this headachey dreamspace :)

Whether that makes for legible blog comments is another story :)