I planted some containers this weekend, even though it's a bit early for Zone 7. I was explaining to my wonderful landscape designer last week that, for me, it all starts and goes back to A Secret Garden. My first exposure to the root word "Wick." Did you ever read that book?
Oh, I loved that book so much. I must have read it dozens of times as a kid. I had a copy with beautiful paintings illustrating everything. I got the movie as an Easter gift one year and it came with a silver locket. I still have the locket--I even loved that. (I guess the movie is still in my house somewhere, but I only watched it once or twice.)
I love that book, and this post makes me want to read it again. I never thought about how it may have influenced my nascent Wiccan tendencies.
I also meant to comment a while back about how much I love that passage from Monique Wittig, "remember, or failing that, invent." That sums up for me much of the epistemology of modern Paganism. Thanks for these lovely reminders.
I'm a woman, a Witch, a mother, a grandmother, an eco-feminist, a gardener, a reader, a writer, and a priestess of the Great Mother Earth. Hecate appears in the
Homeric Ode to Demeter, which tells of Hades who caught Persophone
"up reluctant on his golden car and bare her away lamenting. . . . But no one, either of the deathless gods or of mortal men, heard her voice, nor yet the olive-trees bearing rich fruit: only tenderhearted Hecate, bright-coiffed, the daughter of Persaeus, heard the girl from her cave . . . ."
4 comments:
Oh, I loved that book so much. I must have read it dozens of times as a kid. I had a copy with beautiful paintings illustrating everything. I got the movie as an Easter gift one year and it came with a silver locket. I still have the locket--I even loved that. (I guess the movie is still in my house somewhere, but I only watched it once or twice.)
I read that book when I was ten. It was a good book, and the movie was cute too.
It is one of my childhood favorites!!! It is a book I look forward to my youngest reading in another year or 2.
Mama Kelly
I love that book, and this post makes me want to read it again. I never thought about how it may have influenced my nascent Wiccan tendencies.
I also meant to comment a while back about how much I love that passage from Monique Wittig, "remember, or failing that, invent." That sums up for me much of the epistemology of modern Paganism. Thanks for these lovely reminders.
Post a Comment