My Wife Was A Stunning Beauty Then And She’s a Stunning Beauty Now.

Thirty-five years ago, photo from Kay Rogers

“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.” ♥️

— Margaret Atwood

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Well, there you have it. We are still deep within this patriarchal love of not Earth but of battle spear and its plunder, domination of Nature and all Her living beings for selfish wealth. And since woman in these male-oriented traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are seen as the dark, the evil, the lifeless life of our Earth, the despised Nature, she is despised, oppressed and so is the Feminine of which woman is not only the symbol but living embodiment.

‘It is now perfectly clear that before the violent entry of the late Bronze and early Iron Age nomadic Aryan cattle-herders from the north and Semitic sheep-and-goat-herders from the south into the old cult sites of the ancient world, there had prevailed in that world an essentially organic, vegetal, non-heroic view of the nature and necessities of life that was completely repugnant to those lion hearts for whom not the patient toil of earth but the battle spear and its plunder were the source of both wealth and joy. In the older mother myths and rites the light and darker aspects of the mixed thing that is life had been honoured equally and together, whereas in the later, male-oriented, patriarchal…