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greygirlbeast

winter relapse

May 11, 2006 10:40

The weather forecast has been growing a little less pleasant with each day. Now it's predicting that Saturday's high will only be 64F, and the highest high forecast over the next ten days is only in the mid-seventies. Blegh. May should feel like May, not March ( Read more... )

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bluharlequin May 11 2006, 15:51:39 UTC

While I don't recall that book specifically, seeing that photo did remind me of a number of others that I had in the 70s and early 80s that helped nurture my love of reptiles.

As for Drawing Down the Moon, I share your sentiments. It's still the best book out there for an overview on Neo-Pagans. Have you seen Modern Pagans from Re/Search? It's interesting as a glimpse at the variety of neo-pagan experiences out there. Margot Adler is actually featured in there as well.

greygirlbeast May 11 2006, 20:18:47 UTC

Have you seen Modern Pagans from Re/Search?

I haven't. But I just followed your link to Amazon and shall be adding it to my reading list!

sclerotic_rings May 11 2006, 15:52:53 UTC

Ah, I nearly wore out the copy of A Snake-Lover's Diary in my old elementary school library: are you sure that we aren't related? (I had the same problem with snakes: I loved keeping and caring and caring for snakes, but my mother had a very justifiable fear of them, and I was finally able to work through that fear thanks to a beautiful speckled king named Plissken I found when I was 15. I don't have the space for keeping snakes indoors any more, but considering that my garden beds are full of brown grass snakes, I don't lament the loss ( ... )

greygirlbeast May 11 2006, 20:16:39 UTC

are you sure that we aren't related?

Well, you never know. ;-)

anthologie May 11 2006, 16:28:08 UTC

I just recently realized that the Margot Adler who wrote that book is the same one now working as an NPR newscaster.

greygirlbeast May 11 2006, 20:15:52 UTC

I just recently realized that the Margot Adler who wrote that book is the same one now working as an NPR newscaster.

Hmmm. I wasn't aware of that, as I never listen to NPR (no particular reason, it just never happens). Interesting.

dsgood May 11 2006, 17:26:15 UTC

I recommend this: Persuasions of the Witch's Craft; Ritual Magic in Contemporary England; T. M. Luhrmann; Harvard University Press.

It's an anthropological study; done in England by an American.

this is silly...... paperthinwalls May 11 2006, 19:09:38 UTC

is it snakes on a plane......? no--it's much better! why, it's...........planes on a snake!! ;)

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