Of masks and election results

Three wonderful masks by Lauren Raine just acquired. This is her Bast, the goddess of Sunrise; and below, Maat, goddess of truth (among a bunch of other things)--

More about her terrific work at www.rainewalker.com

Interesting results of the primaries tonight, with Barack Obama having pretty much a clean sweep, and John McCain doing the same. Not sure what to make of it all, although it's certainly a relief that the Huckabee candidacy on the Republican side has been such a fizzle; glad his theocratic absolutism hasn't attracted wide support. Some of his narrow-minded and bigoted rhetoric has been pretty scary. It'll be intriguing to see how the Clinton forces deal with the Obama movement, particularly since Ohio is now being touted as a major battleground and a chance for Clinton to regroup and beat back Obama.

Another Holiday Desecrated by Christians

Well, the holiday is here again, and, again, fundamentalist Christians are doing their damndest to turn a seasonal holiday into a religious one. Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is even airing a commercial urging us all to remember that the we need to simply 'celebrate Christ's birth' and settle in with our families. Guess the non-Christians don't count in the Huckster's vision of the United States. It was pretty clear before this commercial that that was the case, but he's made it solid as he pitches, presumably sincerely, his message to the fundamentalist Christian voting base; if you managed to miss this cringing ad, catch it at http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2007/12/17/huckabees-christmas-card-to-the-voters/
Dennis Kucinich looks better and better all the time!



Meanwhile, we celebrate the traditional holiday, the solstice, with visits to good friends, various parties, and with family. Here are a couple of photos of Ginger, my 95 1/2 year old mother, recently, as we visited with her in her assisted living quarters here in Columbus--it's a relief to have her five minutes away, rather than the eight hours drive it was to visit her in northern Virginia--what a good idea it was to arrange to have her move here three years ago! Now we can visit several times a week, and, just as importantly, monitor her health care and medications.


Ginger Woods


Ginger with Ann


Ginger with middle son

Very busy with the Limbo play project, which has mushroomed into a major task, coming on top of the Heckart plays; will be awash with readings for the next few months! Details on both at two sites: http://limboplays.blogspot.com and http://heckartdrama.blogspot.com