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"It is up to her to inform them that when she has "that look" in her eyes,
it does not mean she is a vacant lot waiting to be filled.
It means she is balancing a big cardhouse of ideas on a single fingertip,
and she is carefully connecting all the cards using tiny crystalline bones
and a little spit, and if she can just get it all to the table without it falling down
or flying apart, she can bring an image from the unseen world into being."
~ Women Who Run With the Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estes
I don't have to tell you again how much I love this book. But the way it continues to speak to me at points I need a bit of encouragement and a lot of prodding is pretty astounding.
in other news...
I watched the first season of Buffy, and am now going to stop watching it.
It's too scary for me. I love the wit (Dreams! That would be the musical comedy of this... It's our nightmares. ~ Giles)
but uncool as it is I have to face up to the truth. I have "delicate sensibilities", and the body count really bothers me.
Hulu.com has the first 3 seasons up, with commercial interruptions, for the interested. I think it may even be legal to watch them.
not to prolong your agony, but...
I was going to do a "Recently Reading" manga round-up (of only my recommendations, because I've been reading too many to talk about them all, but I think I'll do that some other day.
For now, I am squeeing over the reappearance of a certain character in Skip-Beat, and the arc following him like a katana strapped to his back...
The greatest thing about Skip-Beat is that though the heroine is being "pursued" by multiple guys, it's only a portion of the guys she's interacting with, and for differing reasons that are very believable. Or at least, organic to her character.
I'm for Ren in the long-term, but I *love* the Sho and Reino arcs.
(This from a girl who hates triangles for the most part, too.)
...Reino...<3
Last, an AMV that has it's own art (Howl's Moving Castle/Kryptonite)
(It's my first official entry into a collection. It's such a curious phenom...
This one, BTW, uses effects I haven't really seen, as a story-telling device organic to the theme)
{Yes, I'm thinking too hard about this. It's the suppressed academic in me.}
it does not mean she is a vacant lot waiting to be filled.
It means she is balancing a big cardhouse of ideas on a single fingertip,
and she is carefully connecting all the cards using tiny crystalline bones
and a little spit, and if she can just get it all to the table without it falling down
or flying apart, she can bring an image from the unseen world into being."
~ Women Who Run With the Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estes
I don't have to tell you again how much I love this book. But the way it continues to speak to me at points I need a bit of encouragement and a lot of prodding is pretty astounding.
in other news...
I watched the first season of Buffy, and am now going to stop watching it.
It's too scary for me. I love the wit (Dreams! That would be the musical comedy of this... It's our nightmares. ~ Giles)
but uncool as it is I have to face up to the truth. I have "delicate sensibilities", and the body count really bothers me.
Hulu.com has the first 3 seasons up, with commercial interruptions, for the interested. I think it may even be legal to watch them.
not to prolong your agony, but...
I was going to do a "Recently Reading" manga round-up (of only my recommendations, because I've been reading too many to talk about them all, but I think I'll do that some other day.
For now, I am squeeing over the reappearance of a certain character in Skip-Beat, and the arc following him like a katana strapped to his back...
The greatest thing about Skip-Beat is that though the heroine is being "pursued" by multiple guys, it's only a portion of the guys she's interacting with, and for differing reasons that are very believable. Or at least, organic to her character.
I'm for Ren in the long-term, but I *love* the Sho and Reino arcs.
(This from a girl who hates triangles for the most part, too.)
...Reino...<3
Last, an AMV that has it's own art (Howl's Moving Castle/Kryptonite)
(It's my first official entry into a collection. It's such a curious phenom...
This one, BTW, uses effects I haven't really seen, as a story-telling device organic to the theme)
{Yes, I'm thinking too hard about this. It's the suppressed academic in me.}
