Death “Leave Your Body and Soul at the Door”

“It’s funny how pride and ego are the very last human vanities to go.” ~ D. Brinkley Death is heavy on my mind these days. So many have died due to this virus all over the world. Putting politics aside I want to look at the fear we hold in us about death. I have … Continue reading Death “Leave Your Body and Soul at the Door”

Wicked Men

Alexis Zorba: God has a very big heart but there is one sin he will not forgive. [slaps table] If a woman calls a man to her bed and he will not go. I watched two films last night. The films are Wicked Woman and Zorba the Greek. In general, both are particularly excellent films. … Continue reading Wicked Men

We must explore!

Punk Rock Colleague & Historian and Professional Consultant Hudley Flipside The Naked Grace. These times are asking us to go within. Over the generations we have taken this journey within. By choice, by accident and spiritually. Through drugs, side effects from prescribed medication or by magic. A song can amplify this reality. A writer can share … Continue reading We must explore!

It turns me on. Enough said

A reflection on our "anima and animus." “Cripples, Rebels and Criminals Few of us can envision a genuine androgyne and few of us want to be androgynous. Like many potent words, androgyne has lost its true meaning. Nowadays, it suggests unisex, a mushing together of undifferentiated masculine and feminine energies so weak in themselves that … Continue reading It turns me on. Enough said

The Calendar

In memory of… Sigrid Hudson Bishop “Eternity interrupts. It is as if there is a plane where there is clock time and then eternity puts its hand in for a minute and you have an archetypal experience. You have a feeling of what Jung said was “the infinite” and then very often the watch reacts … Continue reading The Calendar

My heavenly shower

  My heavenly shower is a sacred place of hot, warm or cold water.  It is there for me in worst of times bones ache and chills of fever cleaning a dark soul quality away.  I sing, talk and compose there I talk to my medicine animals there and say my prayers.  It is an old shower with a whacked head yet the water cleans me … Continue reading My heavenly shower

The Nasty woman is me

The Nasty Woman “In his late works , he embodied these and other ills in the nightmare ridden figure of the cosmic giant Albion, or universal humanity, who has fallen in to deadly sleep of mundane existence. In humanity’s coma, the divine is a remote and forbidding sky-god: nature a sterile heap of atoms, lovers … Continue reading The Nasty woman is me

Chi Chi Hawa Harmony

"Hello, baby, helloOpen up your heart and let your feelings flowYou're not unlucky knowing meKeeping the speed real slowIn any case I set my own pace by stealing the showSay hello, hello." Chi Chi Hawa Harmony Chato from Painted Women / The Mustanger and the Lady (The Brandiron) ~ Dusty Richards You don’t catch a … Continue reading Chi Chi Hawa Harmony

Resilient

“Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.” ― William Blake It was terrifying living through California fires. I took a picture across the street then of what I see as a fire monster. At least it looks like one. The fires … Continue reading Resilient

In its highest sense.

To my friend Dionysus "According to Jung, humanity holds a special role in creation: to contribute to the act of consciousness, and the point of view of morality, in its highest sense." ~ Johnson, Robert A. Ecstasy (p. 64) Harper One. Kindle Edition.

Time of Coyote

As we move into the Summer Solstice I celebrate the “Time of Coyote!” We have been beginning to walk in the Santa Monica Mountains again. I was not feeling well enough but my two sons went for a walk today. Guess who popped out of the wild to show up? Coyote. Youngest son said Coyote … Continue reading Time of Coyote

A Letter to Bernie Taupin, Alfred E. Newman and Gahan Wilson.

Al Jaffee, King of the Mad Magazine Fold-In, Dies at 102 "Allan Jaffee (born Abraham Jaffee; March 13, 1921 – April 10, 2023) was an American cartoonist. He was notable for his work in the satirical magazine Mad, including his trademark feature, the Mad Fold-in. Jaffee was a regular contributor to the magazine for 65 … Continue reading A Letter to Bernie Taupin, Alfred E. Newman and Gahan Wilson.

Within our Nature

Thus it is our fate to manage within our nature the complexity and the competition of two opposing tendencies: that which stands with life and love (the Dionysian) and that which is greedy, power hungry, and ego-driven (the Titanic). Aguilar, A. Marina. Alchemy of The Heart: The Sacred Marriage of Dionysos & Ariadne . Chiron … Continue reading Within our Nature

Rocket Man Review: The Film

PUNK ROCK COLLEAGUE & HISTORIAN AND PROFESSIONAL CONSULTANT HUDLEY FLIPSIDE Centrifuge Going So Swiftly “And we went to California and up and down the Pacific Coast for a day and a half, settling at last on the sands of Malibu to cook wieners at night. Dad was always listening or singing or watching things on … Continue reading Rocket Man Review: The Film

In the Pit: Experience found guilty via an individual’s fingerprints

https://www.facebook.com/AlisonBraunPhotography/ I see how the term Punk Rock is always trying to be defined by many. Yet the real-life definition is not an out their term to read about in academic journals because it is based on the foundation of experience. It is viewed by the action of individuals. As shown by Pudd’nhead Wilson, (1894) … Continue reading In the Pit: Experience found guilty via an individual’s fingerprints

Wild thing

Wildflowers have taught me to be authentic. You cannot mess with a wildflower. It does its own thing. Too much water or love and if will die. One must look at a wildflower with a sideways glance. Appreciation is appreciated. Don’t expect a sweetness without an inward determination or discernment from the wild thing. Euphrosyne … Continue reading Wild thing

Androgynous God

To Dionysus who now teaches me to believe in myself... https://www.youtube.com/embed/KLVq0IAzh1A?si=Gu4fFhD0Pt6PlNwP

a niche for the conscious feminine

Sunflowers and pomegranates by Hudley "But now women need to create structures in their lives and in society which ensure a niche for the conscious feminine. It is time to explode the fallacy that men and women are the same. Being equal does not mean having to be similar. Perhaps the time has come when … Continue reading a niche for the conscious feminine

A Woman’s Day 2019

A Matter of Choice. Maggie Paul (Update I now run a publishing business and working with upgrading my ideology on profit and sharing while creating a professional and friendship-based community.) I am not a feminist or a professional businesswoman. I took the more traditional path as a wife and mother. I am also an entrepreneur. … Continue reading A Woman’s Day 2019

One drop of rain

YEARS ON WORDPRESS Originally posted 2019 I have Chiron square Mercury in my 7th house... “Please believe meOh well, please believe mePlease believe meI swearISwear” I didn’t speak much when I was young. Was not interested in writing either. Only a few poems. I played with my friends, but I found it more and more … Continue reading One drop of rain