Leah, mother of Dinah, wife of Jacob;

[seaside_ghosts]

"This is not easy to explain, but I will tell you. Because you are my only daughter and because we lived for so long in such isolation, you already know much more than you should. You have spent time with us in the red tent. You have even attended a birth, which is something you must never tell Grandmother. I know that you will not reveal what I

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[livinginoctober]

That was so moving....and visual.

[flourishing]

They imagine we suffer and consider themselves lucky. We do not disabuse them.

This is so full of purpose.

I must find a copy of this book.

[seaside_ghosts]

Oh, please do. It nurtures ways of thinking that far too many have dismissed for far too long.

[lucidii]

A group of women gave me a ritual very much like this, for menarche and the beginning of womanhood: it was incredibly moving, and monumental. (And the book is spectacular: I read it when I was eleven or so and it has stayed with me.)

[seaside_ghosts]

I wish I had such an honored ritual to recollect in my memories. But living in middle-class suburbia tends to fade the traditions of such things. I remember my mother hugging me and kissing my forehead and how proud I felt when she bought me my first box of sanitary napkins.

[eleven_eleven]

my bf is making an album that is titled
innana: the gifts of me

[seaside_ghosts]

That is fabulous. He seems like a keeper.

[gia_elysium]

I want to run naked in the mountains come this blood.
It will fill me and release me and make me whole again.

oh yes..

[seaside_ghosts]

Mine has just about finished so yours shall be appearing soon, correct?

And I'd love to be right beside you, fertile and feral in all senses of the words.

[gia_elysium]

Just today, how apropos.

I'm two inches away from going mad.