What Would Sappho Say?
Lectori Salutem! or L.S. (Greetings to the Reader!)
You had to know it was coming. The pompous way I write.... little Miss Know-It-All.... sooner or later I was bound to ask for something big from my readers that smelled sickly sweet of shameless self-promotion. Well, that day is almost here and I thought I better dig a trench for my readers so you couldn’t crawl out of it on the way to doing this enormously egocentric favor I am about to ask of you.
Friday, February 12, 2010
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Sappho Speaks: Hate Lives under the Softest, Smoothest Rock
What Would Sappho Say?
Lectori Salutem! or L.S. (Greetings to the Reader!)
From the inception of the following words and till now, the seeming demise of their usefulness, I have fallen under the moniker lipstick lesbian. Now lets not go overboard with me as the poster child. I am not. I merely was a slave to painted nails, lipstick and eye liner and rarely left the house without a little something-something on my face. My taste in clothes always ran more towards the designers rather than denim and flannel and I have only once been called a “dyke” with a straight face in my life and that was a case of severe ignorance and resulted in a close call with my life as well. The real kicker is it didn’t happen here in Houston with it’s multicultural views and seemingly conservative society overall. Oh no! It happened in the bastion of liberalism in the late 90’s, Austin, Texas.
Lectori Salutem! or L.S. (Greetings to the Reader!)
From the inception of the following words and till now, the seeming demise of their usefulness, I have fallen under the moniker lipstick lesbian. Now lets not go overboard with me as the poster child. I am not. I merely was a slave to painted nails, lipstick and eye liner and rarely left the house without a little something-something on my face. My taste in clothes always ran more towards the designers rather than denim and flannel and I have only once been called a “dyke” with a straight face in my life and that was a case of severe ignorance and resulted in a close call with my life as well. The real kicker is it didn’t happen here in Houston with it’s multicultural views and seemingly conservative society overall. Oh no! It happened in the bastion of liberalism in the late 90’s, Austin, Texas.
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Sappho Speaks: The Road Back To Religion and Agnosticism
What Would Sappho Say?
Lectori Salutem! or L.S. (Greetings to the Reader!)
Tonight I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about God, or should I say G(g)ods, as I have pondering my own belief system and the others that exist now and have existed from the dawn of man. As a matter of course, I attend the Unitarian Universalist church when the urge hits me and have been a member for two years although that reveals little about the exact nature of my philosophy on God.
To say I am simply agnostic does no justice to the time and thought I have put into the notion of religion and knowledge I have obtained on the religions of the world searching for answers. Agnosticism is actually so much more complex than just straddling the fence between knowing whether or not God exists. An agnostic in the positive, in the matter of intellect, follows their reason as far as it will take them without regard to any other consideration and in the negative, in the matter of intellect, does not pretend that conclusions are certain that cannot be demonstrated or demonstrable.
Lectori Salutem! or L.S. (Greetings to the Reader!)
Tonight I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about God, or should I say G(g)ods, as I have pondering my own belief system and the others that exist now and have existed from the dawn of man. As a matter of course, I attend the Unitarian Universalist church when the urge hits me and have been a member for two years although that reveals little about the exact nature of my philosophy on God.
To say I am simply agnostic does no justice to the time and thought I have put into the notion of religion and knowledge I have obtained on the religions of the world searching for answers. Agnosticism is actually so much more complex than just straddling the fence between knowing whether or not God exists. An agnostic in the positive, in the matter of intellect, follows their reason as far as it will take them without regard to any other consideration and in the negative, in the matter of intellect, does not pretend that conclusions are certain that cannot be demonstrated or demonstrable.
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