Quote of the Day

See for yourself
What brings you contentment, clarity, peace.
That is the path for you to follow.
- Gautama Buddha

Remedy for Spiritual Exhaustion (Easter Special #2)

Why are we Americans such a gregarious but lonely people? My friend Alliekatt McPoguemahone, previously mentioned here in the "America, the Nincompoop" post (see archive), has found both the answer and the remedy in her adopted homeland of Ireland:

"I have finally gotten it. The Irish respect self-sufficiency and motivation, but it is not the light that they fly to. They fly to the light that breaks through when our armor breaks down and reveals common human ground of mortality, difficulty, struggle, grief, and heartbreak."

Read the rest on Allie's blog.

Peeps Show (Easter Special #1)

For Easter, the holiday of fertility and bunny love (named in honor of the Germanic goddess of spring, Eostre), I post a link to this special video for you, my two or three loyal blog readers. Yes: marshmallow Peeps going at it in true bunny style. Enjoy! Make sure you have the music on.

A bit of Easter reading for the more scholarly among you:
Dr. Carol Cusack (U. of Sydney, Australia), "The Goddess Eostre: Bede's Text and Contemporary Pagan Tradition(s)" (abstract)