Comments | lilairen: Moo. (Round women, full of promises.)

lilairen

Moo. (Round women, full of promises.)

Oct 21, 2003 19:30

Been sort of chewing on writing this one for a while. So, on with the moderately literal omphaloskepsis.

(I ponder whether I'm writing this at the moment because I'm grouchy at being repeatedly told that people don't see any Het-Herw energy in me. Hah.)

( Cut for the possibility of length. )

hethert, about me, family

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keshwyn October 21 2003, 17:19:29 UTC

Het-Herw?

Someday, you will have children, and so (I hope) will I. :) And then we will trade off corrupting them for each other.

lilairen October 21 2003, 17:35:59 UTC

Hathor. Governing music, motherhood, getting completely schnockered on booze, and other forms of joyfulness. ;) Solar/sky goddess; Her name means 'House of Horus', and one of Her titles is 'Eye of Ra'. (Daughter of Ra, wife of Herw-Wr, syncretised with Sekhmet.)

And yes. Community. Family. Good.

keshwyn October 21 2003, 17:47:04 UTC

Kharass.

*hug'n'roomiesan*

I can see you getting totally schnookered on booze. And music. And have, in fact, seen both those things.

Me, I'm mildly tipsy at the moment, which is much more pleasant than the way I was feeling earlier, but I think I'm going to bed now. And tomorrow will be another, different day. I have faith.

lilairen October 21 2003, 18:03:37 UTC

Go forth and feel better.

Thinking of you.

oneironaut October 21 2003, 18:14:30 UTC

Moo. (Round women, full of promises.)

I spent several seconds trying to read this as a perfectly-spherical-cow joke before I got to the bit about Het-Herw and realized what you were talking about.

lilairen October 21 2003, 18:21:37 UTC

Consider a spherical goddess, completely filled with ma'at. . .

brooksmoses October 21 2003, 18:23:14 UTC

At uniform temperature and pressure. You can't forget the uniform temperature and pressure.

- Brooks, muttering about whether or not ma'at is compressible....

jinian October 22 2003, 16:53:44 UTC

Yes, because it should obey the Ideal Gas Law.

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raingnosis October 21 2003, 20:11:29 UTC

I want my family with me, I want to build my community up and teach my children among them. I want to have conversations about names in earnest, not just in play.

I know I'm not ready, but the hunger doesn't care.

Your entry had me nearly in tears, just because I know what you mean so well.

lilairen October 21 2003, 20:18:44 UTC

I hope those were recognition-tears more than hurt-tears, though I know the subject has its pains for you . . . .

sashajwolf October 21 2003, 23:52:15 UTC

I remember that ache. If I had waited till I thought I was ready, though, I'd probably still be aching now - there was a significant part of the becoming-prepared that could only have happened in pregnancy, for me, a particular sort of spiritual experience.

lilairen October 22 2003, 11:46:59 UTC

Nice userpic, I don't think I've seen that one before . . .

I'm not surprised by that, really; it's good to have confirmation of it from you and other folks, though.

ailbhe October 22 2003, 02:38:24 UTC

I am going to be round :) At least, I hope I am. I'm a little bulgy.

I'm not sure there is a "ready" - I have a feeling that "If you think you are ready, you are not" might be true. I know one man and one woman in seperate couples who always want children "eventually" but never "now", because they are Not Ready.

With love, for some reason,

A.

porcinea October 22 2003, 10:30:46 UTC

I think there can be a "ready". I waited 'til I was ready. (And then waited a bit longer [a month or so] 'til the boy was ready.) On the gripping hand, I'm now 40. Most people want to do it a bit sooner than that. But waiting 'til I felt ready was more important to me. Counting on good genes (my grandmother had her last child at 45), and a low-caffeine diet, but I might have out-waited myself. Glad I didn't. But also glad I took the risk.