This is super disturbing, but sadly, not very surprising. "Heroic rape" is possibly the worst phrase ever. Thanks for the enlightenment. I will never look at Medusa the same again.
One of your best!!!!! WOW. Of course I love myth and the truths deep within them. And as Linda Ann R says, great Marcus Aurelius quote. The cherry atop the luscious, luminous sundae.
Love the final quotation from Marcus Aurelius. Here’s one that resonates with me that arrived in a newsletter that I receive every Monday:
“once I heard an interview with John Lennon on the radio, a section of which I copied into my journal. Lennon was asked why he devoted so much energy to peace, and wasn’t that a waste of time? Lennon replied that he believed that it was Leonardo da Vinci who made flying possible by projecting it, by bringing it into people’s consciousness as even a possibility. “What a person projects will eventually happen,” Lennon said. “Therefore, I always want to project peace. I want to put the possibility of peace into the public imagination. And I know, as certain as I am standing here, that someday, peace will be.””
Benedictine sister, Mary Lou Kownacki, OSB who passed on 01/06/23. She was a peace activist, friend and muse of Sister Joan Chittister.
This is super disturbing, but sadly, not very surprising. "Heroic rape" is possibly the worst phrase ever. Thanks for the enlightenment. I will never look at Medusa the same again.
One of your best!!!!! WOW. Of course I love myth and the truths deep within them. And as Linda Ann R says, great Marcus Aurelius quote. The cherry atop the luscious, luminous sundae.
Love the final quotation from Marcus Aurelius. Here’s one that resonates with me that arrived in a newsletter that I receive every Monday:
“once I heard an interview with John Lennon on the radio, a section of which I copied into my journal. Lennon was asked why he devoted so much energy to peace, and wasn’t that a waste of time? Lennon replied that he believed that it was Leonardo da Vinci who made flying possible by projecting it, by bringing it into people’s consciousness as even a possibility. “What a person projects will eventually happen,” Lennon said. “Therefore, I always want to project peace. I want to put the possibility of peace into the public imagination. And I know, as certain as I am standing here, that someday, peace will be.””
Benedictine sister, Mary Lou Kownacki, OSB who passed on 01/06/23. She was a peace activist, friend and muse of Sister Joan Chittister.