Walhydra's Porch

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-345812302012-01-25T16:38:51.239-05:00Walhydra's PorchCurmudgeonly musings from an old VirgoBright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.comBlogger1961100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-4534041292224284902012-01-25T16:38:00.000-05:002012-01-25T16:38:51.245-05:00My territory

The Selma Street cats don't usually let me photograph them, but last weekend this one—after first jumping up and walking away—turned, sat and gave me "the look." If you take a look at my Cats collection on RedBubble, you'll see his two brothers and three of his neighbors. A nice day for cats.

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-72597524542711414962012-01-23T11:35:00.000-05:002012-01-23T11:35:37.958-05:00Hope...

...for the New Year.

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-18914904704914031742012-01-06T09:01:00.002-05:002012-01-06T09:03:30.227-05:00Belly rub. Now.

No comment.

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-21411210236871612972011-12-16T12:54:00.000-05:002011-12-16T12:54:27.520-05:00Incognito-ish

"Peek...."

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-14435364564556764882011-12-14T12:21:00.001-05:002011-12-14T12:24:26.653-05:00Sonic incognito

The first time we ever took Sonic to the vet, the doctor took one look, said, "Oh, you're one of those," and threw a towel over his head. Sonic was happy. [Shadow, of course, freaks out if anything other than an adoring hand touches his regal fur.] :-)

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-18386792705697894402011-12-13T16:44:00.003-05:002011-12-13T16:46:55.343-05:00First lights

Since Jim and I moved to Florida eleven years ago, we have been intrigued by the way Xmas seems to start earlier each year. By now, it seems, Xmas begins the day after Hallowe'en. Granted, our sweet next door neighbors did, in fact, wait until December to put up their lights. Blessèd be, Michael

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-13317467337415515482011-12-07T16:49:00.000-05:002011-12-07T16:49:09.226-05:00No comment

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-19955159060208447662011-12-05T21:47:00.007-05:002011-12-05T22:09:01.310-05:00Paradox

In The Flamingo's Smile, one of his collections of brilliant essays from Natural History magazine, Stephen Jay Gould tells a story about the lady who visits her butcher one Friday morning, seeking a large chicken for the Sabbath meal. The butcher looks in his bin and finds to his chagrin that he has but one scrawny animal left. He takes it out with great fanfare and puts it on the scale. Two

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-44618824934272111782011-11-23T16:23:00.000-05:002011-11-23T16:23:10.786-05:00Feline thespians

Yep. These two definitely know how to project a role. I’m so cute I’m so grand And so it is. Blessèd be, Michael

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-31014094428829546252011-11-12T17:33:00.001-05:002011-11-23T16:25:33.977-05:00Shady cats

This is a common evening spot for both of these kids. Blessèd Be, Michael

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-9267400345856653992011-11-05T10:27:00.000-04:002011-11-05T10:27:22.007-04:00Twenty-six years

JimJim rarely lets me take portrait photographs, but I managed to get this one. Warm hands.

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-22869021061014514452011-10-28T15:00:00.000-04:002011-10-28T15:00:36.078-04:00The fault, dear Brutus....

When Walhydra is having a bad day, hour, minute, second, and she can't find any way to rationalize or psychoanalyze her way through it, she grasps for some other way to point the finger. The first fallback is Moon Phase, the second is Moon Void of Course status, and the third is Mercury Retrograde. Of course, none of this really changes anything...but it's fun to shift the blame. Look for

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-488261260745137232011-10-25T14:45:00.000-04:002011-10-25T14:45:27.971-04:00Centers of production

Over on Quaker Pagan Reflections, Cat has published a new post called "The Saturday Farm." Cat's key theme is this: I keep thinking of a comment Joel Salatin made in Yes Magazine once, about how Americans have become used to thinking of our homes as centers of consumption, but how once, thinking of your home as a center of production...was the norm. Saturdays at home have become very productive

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-3489357477430489572011-10-10T09:47:00.000-04:002011-11-23T17:15:03.376-05:00Did someone say "Vet"?

Shadow and Sonic become suspicious whenever both of us are home in the morning.... It was a false alarm. Blessèd Be.

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-76979328630788017922011-10-06T22:53:00.000-04:002011-10-06T22:53:16.444-04:00Walhydra's Lament, orCan't I trade this incarnation in without having to die first?

A new story on Walhydra's Back Porch.Note from the amanuensis: This story was originally published eleven years ago via email to The Crone Thread listserv, back in January of 2000, when the amanuensis was still in library school, before the move to Florida. A lot of water has flowed over the bridge—or under the dam, or something—since then. At the time, the story began with the following

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-58096694494957480252011-10-05T18:42:00.003-04:002011-10-05T18:48:47.358-04:00On the other hand....

...while Florida enjoys an early southern fall, Erla Zwingle, over in Venice, writes: The first day of autumn came and went as decreed by the cosmos, but around here summer didn’t get the memo. The heat wave that began some two months ago is still enjoying itself thoroughly, lolling on the beach, gleaming on the Alpine peaks, bringing joy to the daring hoteliers who risked staying open and not

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-64955091350057158412011-10-02T22:30:00.011-04:002011-10-03T08:31:55.803-04:00"October's Bright Blue Weather"

Here in Jacksonville, the summer turned suddenly to fall on October 1st, with a drop from the 80s Friday afternoon to mornings in the 50s and days in the low 70s this weekend. Lughnassah/Lammastide, around August 1st, usually signals the first hint of autumn for me, in the faintest of shifts of air and light. We just crossed equinox a week ago, and the season is now crisp. Jim and I both had

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-77289852048832917342011-09-28T14:25:00.004-04:002011-10-09T04:14:03.287-04:00New pages on Porch and Back Porch blogs

In case the dear reader has not noticed, the redesign of Walhydra's Porch and Walhydra's Back Porch has included the addition of some extra pages to the tabs along the top. The Porch has an About page which explains—well, sort of—Walhydra's dubious origins (as well as Bright Crow's). There is also a Mileposts page, which begins with the following introduction: These are selected posts in

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-90853160872701129922011-09-27T16:26:00.000-04:002011-09-27T16:26:59.466-04:00Master Moy does the Taoist Tai Chi set

At various times Walhydra has mentioned practicing Taoist Tai Chi. Now the Taoist Tai Chi Society has posted the following video on YouTube, showing Master Moy Lin-Shin, the founder of TTCS, demonstrating the 108 movement set. Beautiful!

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-88685494913084394322011-09-21T17:33:00.003-04:002011-09-21T19:30:56.543-04:00Photography on RedBubble

Crippled Wolf is a tyro with the camera. However, he's been taking pictures in his head for 40-50 years, so he has decided he should try showing someone else what he sees. To do this he has created an account on RedBubble, a "marketplace, meeting place and learning place of people, art and writing from all over the place." The new slideshow under the Photography heading on the Walhydra's Porch

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-79192953377973524782011-09-19T11:19:00.000-04:002011-09-19T11:19:29.582-04:00Artistic genius

*teehee*

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-65153193641668209382011-08-13T10:31:00.038-04:002011-08-15T09:27:03.984-04:00"Lost Quaker Journals"

Walhydra has been a convinced Quaker (aka Friend) for several decades. She believes that one of Quakerism's strengths—though also one if its main sources of potential ambiguity and confusion—is that Quakers tend to value the Spirit-led testimony of individuals almost as much as they do Scriptures. This quality has led to a rich tradition of journaling and of sharing journals, going all the way

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-45974394559646604042011-08-03T13:46:00.008-04:002011-08-05T14:54:55.721-04:00Yes...

...it IS retrograde.Footnote: On Thursday, August 4th, hitchhiker72 published his blog post on Mercury retrograde from 2 to 26 August 2011, from 1+° Virgo to 18+° Leo.[Note that, in typical Mercury retrograde fashion, his communication about this event was two days late.]Here's a bit of what he writes:With all that has been going on in the world in the past weeks (what with the ongoing phone

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-60331331802138738382011-07-27T18:24:00.017-04:002011-07-28T16:36:09.862-04:00"Probably the bravest man I ever knew"

Manohla Dargis writes the following about Alan Rickman as Snape in the last of the Harry Potter movies:Finally too there is Mr. Rickman, who as Snape, Harry’s longtime nemesis, lifts the movie to its expressive high point.First seen standing in a window shaped like a coffin, Snape enters gravely, a picture of death. Pale and unsmiling, his black hair framing his white face like mourning crepe, he

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-15927104390697430772011-07-13T18:57:00.012-04:002011-07-13T19:37:29.429-04:00xkcd: The blag of the web comic

Wahoo! Walhydra just discovered that one of her favoritest online comics, xkcd, also as a blog...or blag, as Randall Munroe calls it.There's one neat blag post from last May in which Randall gives the results of a color survey. It's very funny.Here's one image from the post, identified by Randall as "some assorted things people came up with while labeling colors":

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-1184302580313230252011-07-10T17:29:00.055-04:002011-09-21T19:30:56.549-04:00Bereft

bereave: O.E. bereafian "to deprive of, take away, seize, rob," from be + reafian "rob, plunder," from P.Gmc. *raubojanan, from PIE *reup-, *reub- "to snatch." A common Germanic formation (cf. Du. berooven, Ger. berauben, Goth. biraubon). Since mid-17c., mostly in reference to life, hope, loved ones, and other immaterial possessions. Past tense forms bereaved and bereft have co-existed since 14c.

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-58662500960561021902011-06-29T19:12:00.009-04:002011-06-29T19:38:16.124-04:00Character

"It's true that my only qualifications are those of character, but when you reach my age character is what you have the most of."—Mrs. Pollifax,in The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax,by Dorothy Gilman

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-33335764991395059742011-06-12T15:40:00.003-04:002011-12-07T19:26:38.690-05:00Venn diagram

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-13454947761030199492011-06-11T18:00:00.007-04:002011-09-22T18:00:32.085-04:00All you can eat

Walhydra was at loose ends on Memorial Day, because Hubby Jim was (as usual) using a day off to...um...work as much as usual.To his credit, she admits, JimJim has been pushing himself intensely for several years now in order to get the research grants and publish the research papers which will allow him—they both hope—to rise above the Slough of Despond, otherwise known as "teaching freshman

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-14607697748222277902011-05-27T09:25:00.003-04:002011-05-27T09:28:52.846-04:00Zen Judaism

Note: From one of those viral email sharings....If there is no self, whose arthritis is this?Be here now. Be someplace else later. Is that so complicated?Drink tea and nourish life. With the first sip... Joy. With the second... Satisfaction. With the third... Peace. With the fourth... a Danish.Wherever you go, there you are. Your luggage is another story.Accept misfortune as a blessing. Do not

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-79227637905137812362011-02-24T06:56:00.015-05:002011-02-24T08:36:53.880-05:00Love and death

Love and deathLestweknowsilencecomesbetween usso the onlyhintof assuranceisin eyesor skinwill I gowhereyou go?And so it is.Blessèd Be.Note: These words came fully formed when I awoke this morning, cuddling with Jim, from a strange and elaborate dream of Bob Dylan being courted by a young ruffian whose poetry had caught his attention. The melody of "Romance in Durango" was playing in my head.The

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-8032904026805099882011-02-09T18:28:00.004-05:002011-02-09T18:31:29.214-05:00After sorrow, joy

Here is something beautiful which my brother shared with me last year. I've just rediscovered the link.And so it is.Blessèd Be.

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-62260632536377991472011-01-15T18:45:00.013-05:002011-09-17T11:55:58.994-04:00Lois

Jim and I sat with Mom for the last couple hours of her life last night.Before sunrise on Wednesday, I had awoken from a powerful dream, in which the vibrant, out-going Mom whom I haven't seen in several years was holding everyone's attention at a party with her three brother and other family and friends.Later that morning, when I visited her at St. Catherine Labouré Manor, I found her in her

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-23366122776818303092010-06-17T09:01:00.004-04:002010-06-17T09:06:20.349-04:00Walhydra's White Slave Adventure: Conclusion

The final chapter in the serialized 1981 travel adventure which Walhydra first published on The Crone Thread in 1997.WWSA, Part 1WWSA, Part 2WWSA, Part 3WWSA, Part 4WWSA, Part 5Conclusion: In which Walhydra finally gets a clueBlessèd Be,Bright Crow

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-76648847824713305892010-06-13T18:19:00.001-04:002010-06-13T18:23:07.990-04:00Jesus and Mo: "Love"

No comment.

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-89867824238417000982010-06-11T12:05:00.003-04:002010-06-11T12:34:01.409-04:00Walhydra's White Slave Adventure, Part 5

Another chapter in the serialized 1981 travel adventure which Walhydra first published on The Crone Thread in 1997.WWSA, Part 1WWSA, Part 2WWSA, Part 3WWSA, Part 4Part 5: In which Walhydra burns with unholy fire...and tastes ashesBlessèd Be,Bright Crow

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-22233794562585278582010-06-02T17:50:00.003-04:002010-06-02T17:57:48.120-04:00"Hana"

Hanaby Joni Mitchell, on ShineHana steps out of a stormInto a stranger's warm, butHard-up kitchen.She sees what must be doneSo she takes off her coatRolls up her sleevesAnd starts pitchin' in.Hana has a special knackFor getting people back on the right track'Cause she knowsThey all matterSo she doesn't argue or flatterShe doesn't fight the slightsShe takes it on the chinLike a champHana says when

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-30754709531536261032010-05-21T11:27:00.005-04:002010-05-21T11:33:09.425-04:00Jesus and Mo: "Yeah"

Walhydra thinks this one just about sums it all up....Here’s the New Scientist article Jesus is reading, "Living in denial: Why sensible people reject the truth."

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-16264116337851984042010-05-10T11:37:00.003-04:002010-05-10T11:43:12.853-04:00"Mississippi Sissy"

The picture says it all."When I am asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it's because we are still able to recognize one."— Flannery O'Connor"The first freak I ever recognized down South where I was born a half a century ago now was my own reflection in a Mississippi mirror."— Kevin SessumsI love it!

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-8167865222681714282010-05-09T16:56:00.024-04:002011-09-22T18:00:32.090-04:00Ruthlessness

Crippled Wolf has been trying to help Walhydra get back to telling her story here. It isn’t easy, because they share a common grief, a common burden of seemingly overwhelming responsibilities.Walhydra has been struggling for months—actually for several years—with the dilemma that worry and grief are difficult to turn into comedy. Through March and April, Walhydra's mother, Senior Witch, took

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-66313135294635296372010-04-22T12:22:00.013-04:002010-04-22T16:20:34.469-04:00"Funny the way it is"

Funny The Way It IsLying in the parkOn a beautiful daySunshine in the grassAnd the children playSirens passingFire engine redSomeone's house is burning downOn a day like thisEvening comesAnd we're hanging outOn the front stepAnd a car goes byWith the windows rolled downThat War song is playing"Why Can't We Be Friends"Someone is screaming and cryingIn the apartment upstairsFunny the way it isIf

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-33508060397727653312010-04-16T16:22:00.005-04:002010-04-16T16:28:19.396-04:00I need this....

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-24177425082243768352010-04-16T10:24:00.002-04:002010-04-16T10:29:01.827-04:00Walhydra's White Slave Adventure, Part 4

Another chapter in the serialized 1981 travel adventure which Walhydra first published on The Crone Thread in 1997.WWSA, Part 1WWSA, Part 2WWSA, Part 3Part 4: In Which Walhydra stands corrected, but doesn't notice for the longest timeBlessèd Be,Bright Crow

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-76113235479813100152010-04-03T22:51:00.004-04:002010-04-05T09:29:46.486-04:00Walhydra's White Slave Adventure, Part 3

Another chapter in the serialized 1981 travel adventure which Walhydra first published on The Crone Thread in 1997.WWSA, Part 1WWSA, Part 2Part 3: In Which Walhydra and Nikki give new meaning to the Zen saying, "After enlightenment, the laundry"Blessèd Be,Bright Crow

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-29661398514254823872010-03-31T18:26:00.006-04:002010-04-04T16:17:27.691-04:00Walhydra's White Slave Adventure, Part 2

In 1997, Walhydra started serializing for the old Crone Thread listserv an adventure which took place way back in 1981 with Nikki (Husband #3), before she and Hubby Jim finally got together. Here is the continuation of that story.WWSA, Part 1Part 2: In which Walhydra discovers that Buddhist equanimity can be a rather expensive pain in the assBlessèd Be,Bright Crow

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-11316672696285320932010-03-26T14:45:00.011-04:002010-03-26T21:49:40.742-04:00Nina Paley's "Mimi & Eunice"

Walhydra has stumbled onto another great comic strip, Mimi & Eunice. Here's what artist Nina Paley says about it:As far as I can tell, Mimi & Eunice are two middle-aged children/baby psychos/heterosexual lesbians. That’s all I can surmise so far.Um...okay....But words don't matter. This about sums it up.

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-57376823251206076602010-03-24T19:40:00.002-04:002010-03-24T19:42:33.237-04:00Help I don't need

Walhydra wonders:Have you noticed how, for the sake of helping you clean house, cats always throw up where a bare foot can find it in the dark?

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-10026903569536892322010-03-06T12:53:00.013-05:002010-03-09T16:25:25.757-05:00Science in My Fiction

Over on Astrogator's Logs, Athena Andreadis is introducing a new blog called Science in My Fiction by Kay Holt and Bart Leib, the founders/editors of Crossed Genres.Kay Holt writes:The purpose of the Science in My Fiction blog is to get science fiction and fantasy writers and fans thinking ahead of science again. Playful bloggers will take a look at recent scientific developments and extrapolate

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-53293236284843726282010-03-05T15:19:00.008-05:002010-05-05T17:48:20.450-04:00"Constant Craving"

Constant Cravingby K.D. LangEven through the darkest phaseBe it thick or thinAlways someone marches braveHere beneath my skinConstant cravingHas always beenMaybe a great magnet pullsAll souls towards truthOr maybe it is life itselfThat feels wisdomTo its youthConstant cravingHas always beenCravingAh haConstant cravingHas always beenConstant cravingHas always beenConstant cravingHas always

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-70618467851781984392010-02-27T11:19:00.011-05:002010-02-27T11:46:47.645-05:00Jesus and Mo

Walhydra has stumbled onto a delightful webcomic called Jesus and Mo.The artist uses the pseudonym Mohammed Jones and started the comic in 2005. He has several books out...what he irreverently calls tree flesh.The jist of the comic is that Jesus and Mohammed live together. They rarely go out, and when they do it's usually to a bar called the Cock and Bull, where they sometimes debate with the

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-44972131933660953252010-02-24T19:21:00.006-05:002010-02-24T19:27:19.080-05:00The Sixth Seal

Walhydra thinks this is way too good not to share...and she thanks her friend Cat for posting it on facebook:Latest Sarah Palin Speech Opens Sixth Seal

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-53169729831797101502010-02-03T21:46:00.019-05:002011-09-22T18:00:32.096-04:00Care of the soul

Yesterday, Walhydra voiced her admiration for Bill Murray's 1993 movie Groundhog Day.Murray plays Phil Connors, a self-centered Pittsburgh TV weatherman who is dismayed that he must once again cover the annual Groundhog Day event in Punxsutawney, PA, this year with his new producer Rita and his cameraman Larry. Though Phil wants to leave immediately after the festival, a snowstorm—which he

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-91169673361577878762010-02-02T16:43:00.009-05:002010-02-02T17:01:11.761-05:00Groundhog Day

Walhydra has two quick notes to post for this day (aka Imbolc), which she considers to be the very first day of Spring.First, Walhydra considers Bill Murray's 1993 movie Groundhog Day to be one of his most profound works of tragicomedy, on the order of Peter Seller's Being There.Second, I am not making this up has a wonderful post on the Venetian version of this Pagan/Christian sacred day:While

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-4907754732425555912010-01-27T19:14:00.009-05:002010-01-27T19:37:57.412-05:00Is Mercury in Retrograde?

Although the worst of that latest terrible retrograde is over now, Walhydra was relieved to discover a website for checking day by day: Is Mercury in Retrograde?She was even more amused to check out the news for today:NO.There must be something else bumming you out ...Walhydra is revisiting an old exercise about accepting what is...but, just in case, she has added a link to this little item right

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-74650801559818421842010-01-22T16:24:00.009-05:002010-01-22T16:45:16.303-05:00Walhydra's White Slave Adventure, Part 1:In which Walhydra and Husband #3 have a narrow escape

Note from the amanuensis: Back in October of last year, I withdrew this post from Walhydra's Back Porch. At the time I wrote,No problem with the story itself, but right now I don't feel like pursuing it.I had started posting Part 1 late one night —as I now realize—in order to distract myself from my rising grief over moving Mom [aka Senior Witch] from assisted living into skilled nursing care.Now

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-2998356659946169152010-01-22T12:26:00.007-05:002010-01-22T13:56:49.889-05:00Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad...

This......is what the last few days have been like.Walhydra apologizes to the cosmos for being such a you-know-what the past few days...even if she still thinks that Massachusetts voters and Supreme Court judges are conspiring to destroy America.*ahem*

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-76520916486846071802010-01-12T21:00:00.028-05:002010-01-13T08:37:26.560-05:00"Lab Rat Cinema: Monetizing the Reptile Brain"

Walhydra thinks Athena Andreadis' continued delving into the details of what's wrong with Avatar and similar films is so on target that she wants to quote Athena's new post at length.[Note: You should read the entire post and subscribe to Athena's blog.]The unmistakable sign of a well-wrought book or film is that it puts us in a light trance, emphasis on “light”. We suspend disbelief, immerse

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-50436369170788017732010-01-09T09:49:00.001-05:002010-01-09T09:50:45.347-05:00Screen Cleaner

The gentle reader may not have noticed the free Screen Cleaner which Walhydra long ago added to her sidebar.Try it.

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-42153677818927235482010-01-02T14:35:00.033-05:002010-01-12T21:49:52.306-05:00Ádh'ri Eránis: The Starship Reckless

When she was hunting for reviews of Avatar 3-D recently, Walhydra stumbled across Athena Andreadis' deeply thoughtful critical review, "Jar Jar Binks Meets Pocahontas," which was reprinted by the Huffington Post.Athena originally posted the review on her Astrogator's Logs blog, which is part of a beautiful website called Starship Reckless.Walhydra will let Athena describe it herself:Ádh'ri Eránis

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-53798824176273297602009-12-23T08:50:00.017-05:002009-12-23T09:18:11.335-05:00"The Sky's Sheets"

The Sky's Sheetsby Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)When He touches me I clutch the sky's sheets,the way otherloversdothe earth's weaveof clay.Any real ecstasy is a signyou are movingin the rightdirection,don't let any prude tellyou otherwise.—translated by Daniel LadinskyLove Poems from God:Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West(contributed by Wendiferous)And so it is.Blessèd Be.

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-79434617301020094102009-12-17T12:05:00.009-05:002009-12-17T12:20:28.739-05:00I love you, Jim

James Urban Gleaton, Jr.andMichael Austin ShellMarriage Under the Care of Columbia Monthly Meetingof the Religious Society of FriendsSaturday, December 17, 1994SaturnaliaFull Oak MoonAnd so it is.Blessèd Be.

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-22790955898653174202009-12-16T12:28:00.007-05:002011-10-05T18:43:34.191-04:00"I am not making this up"

Walhydra's work colleague and buddy Trapdoor Spider has a sister who lives in Venice and works as a freelance journalist for publications such as National Geographic.Today, Trapdoor reminded Walhydra that her sister has a blog with delightful name of I am not making this up.Yesterday's post is a beautiful little piece about calicanthus blossoms in the midst of winter.What caught Walhydra's

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-48015069717722046452009-11-13T17:32:00.005-05:002009-11-13T17:38:01.581-05:00From Walhydra's "Milestones"....

In honor of this date: "Anti-paraskavedekatriaphobia.":-)

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-77446939978528282102009-11-11T11:03:00.032-05:002009-11-11T12:03:52.556-05:00Reductio ad Hitlerum

Walhydra thinks it's way past time for some comic relief...well, sort of comic....Fortunately, yesterday there was a conjunction of stars on her Bloglines newsreader account, enabling her to cut-and-paste together a post about the bizarreness of our current political climate.The crux of the "joke" is that the Know Nothings (aka Palinistas), who have wholly subverted the essential conservative

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-7840307933905399162009-11-07T16:21:00.016-05:002011-09-17T11:55:58.999-04:00Howling

Crippled Wolf is sitting with his mother on a tree-shaded deck, beside the large pond behind the skilled nursing care center to which he moved her three weeks ago.A fountain sprays in the middle of the pond, and three large white Chinese geese float nearby, watching intently for handouts.This is not a scene Crippled Wolf had ever wanted to play. No one ever wants it.“Part of my problem,” he tells

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-14513848617342928082009-11-03T20:16:00.013-05:002009-11-03T21:57:56.088-05:00"Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot"

Let Your Soul Be Your PilotWhen you're down and they're countingWhen your secrets all found outWhen your troubles take to mountingWhen the map you have leads you to doubtWhen there's no informationAnd the compass turns to nowhere that you know wellLet your soul be your pilotLet your soul guide youHe'll guide you wellWhen the doctors failed to heal youWhen no medicine chest can make you wellWhen

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-8825233651322902132009-11-01T03:38:00.031-05:002011-09-22T17:09:25.746-04:00The guest

Recently, Walhydra has at times heard an indistinct yet somehow familiar voice murmuring in her ear. It has taken her a while to notice enough of a pattern to these occasions to realize that she should be paying attention. Walhydra hears the voice most clearly during certain interesting moon phases. She also hears it, sometimes, if she makes a particularly satisfying movement or stretch during

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-63716680562219219052009-10-27T08:13:00.017-04:002011-02-04T15:40:50.047-05:00Grief and distraction

Dear Ones,I decided to withdraw from Walhydra's Back Porch Part 1 of "Walhydra's White Slave Adventure." No problem with the story itself, but right now I don't feel like pursuing it.I had started posting Part 1 late one night last weekend—as I now realize—in order to distract myself from my rising grief over moving Mom from assisted living into skilled nursing care.Now the grief has broken

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-45335603416326877432009-10-22T17:01:00.037-04:002011-02-04T15:40:36.544-05:00Senior Witch in stir

Just about everyone Walhydra knows at work, at home and online seems to be hanging by a thread right now.Between deaths, illnesses, severely increasing staff and budget austerity on the job, loss of jobs, loss of homes, and so on, friends are barely managing—yet still managing, somehow—to hold each other up in tenderness. Forgiving each others lapses and sharp edges, simply because Something

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-40426093039703568452009-10-22T09:17:00.014-04:002009-10-22T09:51:36.653-04:00"Living in the Kingdom of God"

Walhydra's buddy Cat has posted an article, Living in the Kingdom of God, about the death of her friend Abby, over on the Bad Quaker Bible Blog.As we Quakers say, "This speaks to my condition."I have seen flocks of birds rising together in a wave, flying so close that wing nearly brushes wing. With invisible signals, they know: now we wheel. Now we soar. Together in one wave they crest and rise

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-1176922350857437322009-10-10T23:34:00.009-04:002009-10-10T23:40:54.306-04:00Greek philosophy

Tonight, Hubby Jim served Walhydra one of his exquisite gourmet dishes, a new recipe out of the current Fall Entertaining magazine from Cook's Illustrated: farfalle pasta with sautéd shiitake and cremini mushrooms and thyme.In gratitude, Walhydra took JimJim out for fancy dessert at Biscotti's—where dessert and coffee cost the price of a meal.As they were leaving afterwards, Jim quoted Walhydra's

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-74144589544331362772009-10-05T20:32:00.028-04:002011-02-04T15:40:50.055-05:00Footnote to "The Dark, again"

Walhydra didn't mention in "The Dark, again" that Lammas is short for Loaf Mass, which is what the Christians renamed the Pagan harvest festival on August 1st.In the Irish Celtic tradition, this festival is Lughnasadh. Here's a bit from Chalice Centre for Celtic Spirituality and Western Inner Traditions:The Celtic harvest festival on August 1st takes its name from the Irish god Lugh, one of the

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-26481961578765256062009-10-04T15:16:00.004-04:002009-10-04T15:32:31.278-04:00Jeremiah 31:33-34

Walhydra's amanuensis has made his first contribution to the Bad Quaker Bible Blog.Blessèd Be,Michael Bright Crow

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-69451962095704579272009-10-03T04:43:00.016-04:002011-10-03T10:43:47.319-04:00The Dark, again

Walhydra notices something a bit different about the onset of The Dark this year. Thank Goddess, it's not the psychotic rollercoaster ride of two years ago, when chronic depression actually overthrew Walhydra's homeostatic whosiwhatsis, so that her brain couldn't keep the serotonins in balance. It's also not the long slow decline into the fat-fed lethargy of Winter Solstice holidays...not yet,

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-34976380794889577362009-09-09T18:12:00.016-04:002009-09-09T19:09:02.950-04:00Oog! Maybe that explains it

Walhydra just discovered that Mercury began a retrograde-of-retrogrades period on Labor Day.Worse, on Mercury Retrograde: The cosmic art of driving in reverse gear while looking through the rear-view mirror, there's more news:Because the outer planets remain in direct motion or retrograde for such long periods of time, the point where they change directions or change signs or make exact contact

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-38594654714355103482009-08-16T19:02:00.004-04:002009-08-16T19:08:26.100-04:00WNYEEP, Part 10: The conclusion

The final chapter of the serialized adventure Walhydra first published on The Crone Thread in 1996. The story is posted on Walhydra's Back Porch.Part 1: Dr. BobPart 2: MatchmakingPart 3: JimPart 4: A Virgo haranguePart 5: IntroductionsPart 6: The “brownie”Part 7: The concertPart 8: The seductionPart 9: The crisisPart 10: The conclusionBlessèd Be,Bright Crow

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-63332160876567592452009-08-04T16:42:00.008-04:002009-08-04T16:50:28.806-04:00I give up!

Walhydra knows she must have been a journalist in a previous incarnation, because bad journalism infuriates her so much.She knows how absolutely essential responsible, professional, investigative journalism is to the growth and survival of real democracy.So...this New York Times blog piece by Paul Krugman, whom Walhydra considers to be both a superb economist and an excellent journalist, makes

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-37429947187955250082009-07-31T13:25:00.011-04:002009-07-31T14:36:47.787-04:00Marilyn Willendorf

Walhydra recently nicknamed one of her characters "Venus of Willendorf" and included an image of the prehistorical sculpture.Walhydra wrote:[Dr. Bob's] daughter-in-law had that wonderful Venus of Willendorf shape. It was a shape which represented for Walhydra both the most comfortable and the most awesome form of Goddess power.Just recently, Walhydra stumbled upon the following image by Ben Heine

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-29455130105999728862009-07-17T16:14:00.022-04:002009-07-17T16:56:27.182-04:00Tying the knot

Well, Walhydra and Hubby Jim are going the long way around, step by step, to make each other legal...no thanks DOMA and that wimpy, people-pleasing excuse for a liberal, Bill Clinton, who signed it.Walhydra won't repeat her whole marriage rant, since you can find it here.Even so, Walhydra says she resents having to find a lawyer, pay $600, and go through weeks of gyrations for two sets of six

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-66910810090576599862009-07-15T08:33:00.010-04:002009-07-15T11:47:54.354-04:00JimJim

In the latest episode of "Walhydra's New Year's Eve Eve Party," Walhydra tells very briefly the story of her first love...and, in more detail, what keeps drawing her back to Hubby Jim.Walhydra and her hubby are now getting ready to escape to the coast of Maine for a week. She thought it would be fun to post her favorite picture of JimJim as a way of filling the gap in her blog till she gets

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-5004100781595963632009-07-11T14:35:00.002-04:002009-07-11T14:46:37.045-04:00WNYEEP, Part 9: The crisis

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-48525198795039833142009-07-08T10:15:00.004-04:002009-07-08T10:43:56.706-04:00Oops!...WNYEEP, Part 7

Oops!Walhydra goofed in June when she published “The seduction” as Part 7 of this story. She just discovered that she skipped an intervening chapter, “The concert.”Here it is, continuing the revision of a serialized adventure Walhydra first published on The Crone Thread in 1996.Part 7: The concertBlessèd Be.

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-24707624374454633112009-06-27T10:30:00.001-04:002009-06-27T10:32:08.044-04:00Stonewall: It's way past time

Walhydra is not at all shy about putting this issue in front of her readers. Today is the fortieth anniversary of the Stonewall Riots of 1969.It's way past time that people of sexual minorities had full civil rights in this country. As one approach to this issue, let me share something called the Dallas Principles.Preamble: President Obama and Congress pledged to lead America in a new direction

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-36364479973147222862009-06-04T08:17:00.002-04:002009-07-08T10:14:23.737-04:00WNYEEP, Part 8: The seduction

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-35226756455184340542009-05-29T15:19:00.010-04:002009-05-30T10:30:12.468-04:00Cranky

Walhydra just learned a new definition for cranky from her buddy the children's librarian:"She's very in touch with the things she dislikes."Has a nice twist to it.

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-7981626854050313092009-05-22T10:07:00.001-04:002009-05-22T10:09:30.886-04:00WNYEEP, Part 6: The "brownie"

A note from Bright Crow: This continues the revision of a serialized adventure Walhydra first published on The Crone Thread in 1996. The story is posted on Walhydra's Back Porch.Part 6: The "brownie"Disclaimer: This is where Walhydra does something naughty. She's not apologizing, but, nonetheless, she says: "Kids, don't try this at home."Blessèd Be.

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-84654287954148688722009-05-20T19:33:00.006-04:002009-05-20T19:44:14.502-04:00Be still

"Be still and know that I am God"—Psalm 46:10

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-27686475356480407792009-04-25T08:47:00.002-04:002009-04-25T08:51:03.786-04:00WNYEEP, Part 5: Introductions

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-2673808183169410342009-03-25T16:23:00.037-04:002009-03-25T18:38:53.880-04:00Brian Andreas' Story People

Walhydra first discovered the work of Brian Andreas in the late 1980s, in the Red Piano II art gallery on St. Helena Island off the coast of Beaufort, SC, when she was attending an American Friends Service Committee regional retreat at Penn Center.[How's that for cramming maximum "product placement" into one sentence?]At that time, Andreas was painting his remarkable characters and their offbeat,

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-23850174771797906312009-03-23T19:59:00.002-04:002009-03-23T20:02:46.932-04:00WNYEEP, Part 4: A Virgo harangue

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-53048662147185272762009-03-06T17:26:00.041-05:002009-03-07T10:25:01.546-05:00Art & photography

Walhydra has occasionally added links to her sidebar without really writing anything about them.Here are a few she thinks the gentle reader might find interesting.crackskullbob.squarespace.comJust the name itself is worth a visit, but Ruben Fletcher does great sketches, too, like this one."They might be three generations, or three friends, or three strangers. I like not knowing. It brings me into

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-48990998150569026562009-03-04T11:00:00.012-05:002009-03-09T13:28:12.354-04:00"Where the Shopkeeper Would Say"

"Where the Shopkeeper Would Say"by Kabir (1440-1518)I waslooking for that shopwhere the shopkeeper would say,"There is nothing of value in here."I found it and didnot leave.The richness of not wantingwrote thesepoems.Blessèd Be.Thanks to Wendiferous for sharing this.

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-67838570456294781552009-02-27T15:28:00.004-05:002009-02-27T15:36:58.232-05:00Low profile

Walhydra hasn't deliberately been keeping a low profile, but it seems that way.It's partly just that she's been busy elsewhere, like here, here, here and here.But she has also been wondering: "Am I distracting myself from inner guidance if I rush to blog about it every time I am led to some new self-awareness?"Heavy duty thinking for Walhydra!Enjoy the waiting.:-)P.S. Check out the downloadable

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-54405452529603970242009-01-31T17:34:00.013-05:002009-01-31T20:15:07.928-05:00"Blood Suckers From Hell"

"Blood Suckers From Hell"by Jalaludin Rumi (1207-1273)Rumi speaking to a crowd muses:Watch out for those blood suckers from hell -cause they're everywhere.And the crowd wisely retorts:"That sounds serious - what do they look like, any hints;are they usually disguised?"Rumi again: Yes, usually, they are awful tricky!"How then to detect them?"Well,I have noticedtheir eyes will narrow and their

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-56180663656625478412009-01-21T23:09:00.001-05:002009-01-21T23:11:00.960-05:00WNYEEP, Part 3: Jim

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-18775760510966180872009-01-21T19:43:00.003-05:002009-01-21T19:48:41.838-05:00LOL!

From my favorite weirdo comic, xkcd:

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-28570387015349270152009-01-15T13:45:00.008-05:002009-01-15T17:08:30.910-05:00"Everything perfect, just as it is" (Bah, humbug!)

CO-GrumpyGranny is writing about the challenges—and occasional successes—of living by the Buddhist precept: "Everything perfect, just as it is."This was in response to Walhydra's sharing her own favorite Zen precept: "After enlightenment, the laundry."Walhydra hates spiritual truths which involve being responsible for your own life (even though she knows they are true).Here's what Grumpy Granny

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-1984351116471349382009-01-09T17:37:00.011-05:002009-01-15T17:10:01.382-05:00Ourobouros

In a bored moment at the reference desk, 20 minutes before quitting time, Walhydra decided to play the "Google yourself" game.One of the more interesting things she found was a link to a post by her old cyber-friend Sara Sutterfield Winn on the now-defunct Pagan Godspell. The post is called "On Perfection, Enlightenment…And Being Grumpy."Here's a key passage:If loving-kindness does not posit

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-47086952657234653582008-12-31T10:24:00.002-05:002008-12-31T10:32:08.974-05:00WNYEEP, Part 2: Matchmaking

A note from Bright Crow: This continues the revision of a serialized adventure Walhydra first published on The Crone Thread in 1996. The story is posted on Walhydra's Back Porch, in order to protect innocent eyes from the "naughty bits."Part 2: MatchmakingBlessèd Be...with giggles.

Bright Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09678898117491633098noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34581230.post-72285344788901077612008-12-28T07:00:00.024-05:002011-09-17T11:55:59.013-04:00Yule blood

First sliver of New Wolf Moon, after Winter SolsticeWalhydra realizes that "blood" is not a word folks usually associate with Yule. We usually think of lights and worship and music and family...and scurry and worry and spending too much and eating too much....Even so, on Yuletide morning, Walhydra marked her black front door with a splash of blood-red ribbon.It was as if she were making certain

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