I said something last week about a longer post coming. Guess this is it, complete with multiple cuts to make it easier to skip stuff that doesn't interest you or to scroll past if you're not interested at all.

( My day at the Hellenic Temple of Apollon, Zeus, and Pan )

Ah, fall. My favorite time of year. There's something so reflective about it without the stark introspection of winter ( Read more... )

In the last half hour, a few posts have shown up on my flist with mentions of Advent and Christmas and an email came in from the Hellenic Temple of Apollon, Zeus, and Pan about tomorrow's Panaia celebration. This has prompted some thinking during this bit of a break I'm taking from writing ( Read more... )

Well, I suppose not all of them wear black all the time. I mean, look at the replacement coat Angel got at the end of "The Girl in Question." But still, this is a little extreme. Also it appears to have been broad daylight, which ought to be a big clue, though they don't say whether it was hiding in the shade.

Oh, what am I talking about? Man ( Read more... )

Someone on the Kuan Yin Association mailing list posted a link to this blog. The blogger went on a tour of temples and shrines to Kwan Yin in China, and has links to pictures she took. The section called "auras and altars" has more artistically altered/filtered photos, the rest appear unaltered, though.

So, there's this thread over oh bhuz about bellydance in church. (If that link doesn't work, you'd have to go to All Forums -- Dance -- The Rest -- What in the world!? Is it me or what?) The OP, and I think one or two others, are horrified by the very idea. Said idea coming from two pics on Amira Mor's website (you might need to scroll down a ( Read more... )

This is going to sound seriously warped, but it is true. The thing I am most grateful for, today, is the death of someone I've been visiting in the hospital ( Read more... )

Today, I'm mainly grateful I got to the teapot before it did anything worse than just crack, like say explode all over the kitchen. Also grateful I found another whistling kettle for $5. Back to metal, which Patsfan will probably not like. (He hates not being able to see completely into it ( Read more... )