Eastertide

[matrixrefugee]

Wow... Easter just about made up for the rotten Christmas we had. We were all healthy and I wasn't too drained from working either... and we were able to get to High Mass at Holy Trinity. Lord, let us be able to go back there next year! I also got to wear the violet and black dress my dad helped me buy from a sweet little Indonesian lady who had a booth in the trade section of the Flower Show. I helped mom cook supper: roasted pork chops; and she in turn helped me get the bottle of alcohol-free champagne open so I could mix some mimosas for the three of us.

Mom gave me an *interesting* Easter basket: It's shaped like an Easter egg! Plus, she also gave me the coffe-table size companion book to Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ". I'm hoping to see the recut version soon: I've heard that they cut much of the scourging scene and added a total of seven minutes of footage in other scenes, to soften the blow somewhat. ...Odd that it should be in the theater at the same time as another, very different film which takes an utterly unsentimental view of spiritual warfare:



I posted a bit from "American Gods" for St. Patrick's Day, just for fun, but I found a few interesting, relevant passages for Easter... One of the characters actually *is* the Anglo-Saxon fertility goddess Eostre:

Easter put her slim hand on the back of Wednesday's square grey hand. "I'm telling you," she said, "I'm doing fine. On my festival days they still feast on eggs and rabbits, on candy and on flesh, to represent rebirth and copulation. They wear flowers on their bonnets and they give each other.[...]"