Hecate

Undermining the Patriarchy Every Chance I Get -- And I Get a Lot of Chances Please find me at my new blog: hecatedemeter.wordpress.com

Showing posts with label Poetry; Gardening. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Poetry; Gardening. Show all posts

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Mr. Mubarak, It's Time for You to Go

The god forsakes Antony When suddenly, at midnight, you hear an invisible procession going by with exquisite music, voices, don’t mourn your...

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

For Fun

It is, after all, the secular season for gratitude. hat tip: Margaret Roach at A Way to Garden . Margaret's video about "Gardening...

Saturday, December 27, 2008

On Reading Garden Porn (aka All The Gardening Catalogs That Start Showing Up In Mailboxes Now)

Ode to a Woman Gardening by Pablo Neruda Yes, I knew that your hands were a budding sprout, a lily of silver: you had something to do with t...

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About Me

Hecate: 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 . . . ."

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