On today's post of 3 Quarks Daily, I just learned that Adrienne Rich has died.
Here is an article in today's Los Angeles Times:
Adrienne Rich, a pioneering feminist poet and essayist who challenged what she considered to be the myths of the American dream, has died. She was 82.
When I was coming out in the mid-1970s, her poetry, and especially her book Of Woman Born, were pivotal in giving me a feminist perspective on my own gayness and on the gender roles of all men and women.
Now, as we all do, she has died.
3 Quarks Daily posted one of her most powerful poems, "To keep the death of the poet from her poems...."
And so it is.
Blessèd be,
Michael
See here for the whole story.
Oops!
Fortunately, hitchhiker72 writes in his blog that there can be pluses this time:
Mercury retrograde is cycling back through Fire and Water signs this year, creating the potential for … steam! Use it to power engines, but don’t get scalded.
12 March to 4 April 2012, 6+° Aries to 23+° Pisces
14 to 8 August 2012, 12+° to 1+° Leo
6 to 26 November 2012, 4+° Sagittarius to 18+° Scorpio
Mercury is currently stationing retrograde in Aries, a Fire sign.
It is close enough to Uranus for any volatility to be amplified, but also the potential for ‘out of the box’ thinking and problem-solving.
So there may be the opportunity to revisit old problems and come up with creative new solutions, once you’ve sidestepped all the delays and technical glitches!
One can hope.
