Friday, February 15th
What a wonderfully insane week this has been. Part of what has made it so, is that Ancient American asked me to do a rush to help them out and get an article in to them for this month’s magazine. So, look for it probably in two weeks at the bigger bookstores, Border’s, etc. Also, the book has gone to print and can be pre-ordered athttp://www.wheatmark.com/bookstore. If anyone has contacts in the public world that might have interest in my novel, please pass them on to me as it’s time to really get the marketing in gear for the book. I’m working this week on talking to bookstores about readings and when I have a schedule I’ll post it in the Schedule section of my website.
The magazine “What is Enlightenment” has an interesting article this month regarding the Divine Feminine. I was delighted to read Ms. Diebold’s premise that a return of feminine values is not the answer to inequality of any kind, not just spiritual, so then what is? The thesis of my novel looks at that issue, so I was happy to discover like-minds questioning it as well. Maybe it’s because I started out in life as what is referred to as “a father’s daughter,” a typical Athena character that supports men, but, it’s not just that, but more an awareness that: 1. Our essential nature is not gendered. 2. The feminine and the masculine are equally valuable.3. Too much of either one creates an imbalance.
We can see the balance when we look at the natural world which has always been the best guidance when our intellects get lost down a rabbit hole of thought that takes us too far from the simple truth. From that perspective any enquiry becomes simple and obvious. Ask any simple person; a village mother, a farmer, a fisherman. They’ll look at you like you’re daft to even bother with such questions. But for those of us who are burdened with a desire to question, whose minds are not naturally simple, the answers can still be best found in the simple and obvious.
