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Walhydra's Porch: Austin: 1922-2013

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Curmudgeonly musings from an old Virgo. Sunday, February 03, 2013. My relationship with my father has always been more complexly private than the one with my mother. To some extent this is sadly true for many men and their fathers, at least in patriarchal cultures. There are societal and biological pressures on men—almost from birth on—expectations that they be “real men,” constantly testing and competing with and doubting each other. But put all that aside. He died in his sleep on January 16, 2013.

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Walhydra's Porch: Walhydra's salutary moment

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Curmudgeonly musings from an old Virgo. Wednesday, October 25, 2006. Walhydra likes to believe that her nostalgia is not as tacky and self-deceptive as some people's. She thinks back on her youth—sometime in another century—as a time when she and her peers were profoundly affected by the liberation movements and communal aspirations of their era. Not to mention their discovery of sex…and those other two. We' ve just finished. How 'bout joining me at Tenbuck's? Okay See you there.". There is a constant st...

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Walhydra's Porch: No one gets out alive

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Curmudgeonly musings from an old Virgo. Monday, March 18, 2013. No one gets out alive. Walhydra knows she is not the only person ever to have parents die. She knows she is not the only one to realize that she is mortal. But she is trying to be observant. At bedtime last night, she told hubby Jim, “I seem to be going through an inventory of all the things that can go wrong with my body.”. Every day, she reads about another woman gang-raped in India, or another funeral procession slaughtered in Pakistan.

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Walhydra's Porch: The Central Paradox: or, Confessions of a Teacher's Pet

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Curmudgeonly musings from an old Virgo. Sunday, December 03, 2006. The Central Paradox: or, Confessions of a Teacher's Pet. Except that she has the notion she's paid most of her dues by now, Walhydra would be at a loss to know how to get out of this one. For her fifty-mumble birthday this summer, Walhydra began working her way through a thoughtful book. Despite the fact that Virgos delight in elaborately charted conceptual models. For realities which actually defy rational analysis. Walhydra can almost r...

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Walhydra's Porch: Jesus and Mo: Soul

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Curmudgeonly musings from an old Virgo. Tuesday, March 04, 2014. Jesus and Mo: Soul. About Jesus and Mo. Posted by Bright Crow. Labels: Jesus and Mo. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Stuck for this incarnation in a sixty-something, gay male would-be writer. View my complete profile. Scroll to bottom for Labels. A Note on Attribution. I'm a writer and a librarian. I license my own online work through Creative Commons. Very interesting source sites. Which I am nudging my readers to look at.

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Walhydra's Porch: Lois

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Curmudgeonly musings from an old Virgo. Saturday, January 15, 2011. Jim and I sat with Mom. For the last couple hours of her life last night. Before sunrise on Wednesday, I had awoken from a powerful dream, in which the vibrant, out-going Mom whom I haven't seen in several years was holding everyone's attention at a party with her three brother and other family and friends. Later that morning, when I visited her at St. Catherine Labouré Manor. And so it is. Posted by Bright Crow. Thank you, Friends.

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Walhydra's Porch: Leonard Nimoy, 1931-2015

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Curmudgeonly musings from an old Virgo. Wednesday, March 04, 2015. Leonard Nimoy, 1931-2015. Leonard Nimoy sat down with the Wexler Oral History Project last year, his impressive Yiddish skills on full display. In this video, Nimoy describes the origin of his famous Star Trek. Hand greeting: the Jewish priestly blessing, or duchening. 8212;by Miriam Krule. Brow Beat: Slate's culture blog. Posted by Bright Crow. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Scroll to bottom for Labels.

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Walhydra's Porch: Jesus and Mo: eggs2

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Curmudgeonly musings from an old Virgo. Sunday, April 20, 2014. Jesus and Mo: eggs2. See The Empty Day. For my personal take on Jesus' passion. He is just there. A historical person, demonstrating in the flesh, through the stories about him, all that a human being is capable of doing when in full relationship with God. What, then, was so powerful for Jesus’ disciples—after their flight and betrayal and denial of him—that they could know him to be alive for them again? And so it is. Posted by Bright Crow.

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Walhydra's Porch: It is what it is: in which Walhydra considers re-entering the blogosphere

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Curmudgeonly musings from an old Virgo. Tuesday, March 12, 2013. It is what it is: in which Walhydra considers re-entering the blogosphere. Walhydra isn't certain that she can be "Walhydra" anymore. When she first entered the blogosphere in 2006, there was no question. She was in a workshop on Social Software in the Libraries. The day that Miso the Cat. In January of 2011, Walhydra's mother, Senior Witch. Eased out of this world. In January of this year, Walhydra's father, the Lutheran pastor. In any cas...

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Walhydra's Porch: Back Porch

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Curmudgeonly musings from an old Virgo. Stuff to share with friends who get the joke and don't mind how tacky or off color it is. In the early 1990s, before there was blogging or the whole herd of social software options, there were discussion boards, chatrooms and email listservs. I met some of my current virtual friends on an old AOL Pagan/Christian discussion board which we used until the "christianist" hosts started censoring it and TOSed. Hence, Walhydra's Back Porch. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).