I haven't written in a while as it's been a busy few weeks. My roommate had a quarantine wedding, and even though it was small, she had a dress and a cake and I compiled a little outfit, and we had a friend and her husband come up from Virginia, and that really wiped me out. The Monday after her wedding, I was so tired that i just laid on the couch and watched Netflix all day, which is honestly something that I never do. Then the week after that we had to do some work on the house she is moving into, so there were two days of pulling up carpet padding and pulling out nails with crowbars and pulling up staples with pliers and sweeping and mopping and scraping up stubborn pieces of carpet padding, all with a side of pushing around a small organ. This weekend I am dogsitting, which is a small weekend reprieve from being busy, then tomorrow it's back home and packing up the apartment. I did start a mask a couple of weeks ago. It's Odin: I was hoping to get it finished, but I was just too busy. Hopefully I can find the time for it this week. It is a little tight on my face - it pushes my nose in a lot, and I'm not sure if I can fix that, but I think I can try. For this mask I covered the cardboard in plain scrapbooking paper so that I wouldn't have to paint it, and I'm really happy with the result. It makes an even color coat, there is no smell of gesso, and then I can easily add detail and shading with colored pencils. I will probably be going this route from here on out, because the gesso smell is too much for me when I'm wearing the mask. Here's what I've been reading: Recently I have been back on the Best of Goddess Spirituality. I never got to read Ariadne's Thread back when it came out, and I'm glad that it's back in print. I am still working my way through it. Much of it is for beginners - there was not a lot of Goddess-centric spiritual literature at the time, and there is still not much, I think, now - so it's taken me a bit to get to some useful passages.
I used to own the tenth anniversary edition of The Spiral Dance, and now I'm happy to own the twentieth anniversary edition. It's always interesting to revisit a book you'd read so long ago - I know that I always worry about how they will hold up over the years. Starhawk is really a treasure. I got this one from the library & made a lot of highlights in the Kindle version, and I decided that I needed it as a paperback, so I bought it. I'm looking forward to also grabbing up Twelve Wild Swans and The Earth Path as well. (I used to actually own her co-authored book on raising children in Goddess traditions, called Circle Round, and I remember that being a good read.) Yesterday I got this Kindle single that takes place in the Pax Arcana world. (Right now it's only 99¢.) Dog-Gone is a little short story of a solo John Charming adventure (in the books, he's usually accompanied by Valkyrie girlfriend, Sig) - a fast, fun, action-packed read. I really enjoy the work that Elliott James has put into his world - he has done his research, and it shows. Also in the research department is the wonderful Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks. I read this for a book club - the next book is Station Eleven, which I need to start working on - and I really had a great time reading Year of Wonders. It is the story of a woman who lives in a small English village that becomes stricken with the plague, and it has some great parallels to the world that we're living in now, and there are great moments of tension and dynamic excitement. Definitely recommend. What I've been watching: Babysitters Club, a great modern reboot of one of my favorites from grade school; Unsolved Mysteries, another dynamic reboot; Bram Stoker's Dracula (Again? Yes! I might do a whole post on it); Destination Wedding, which came out a while ago, but was a really great comedy that could easily be adapted for the stage; Thor: Ragnarok (Another Again? Yes! I finally bought it on DVD); and some old favorites: Beauty Is Embarrassing, the great documentary about artist Wayne White, and the documentary The Artist Is Present, about Marina Abramović's large-scale retrospective. It made me grab her memoir, Walk Through Walls, off my bookshelf, and I'm re-reading it this weekend. I'm hoping to get some more of her books soon. There are some that I have my eye on. But I'm trying not to go too wild with my book spending. What's new? What are you listening to?
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