We here at Pagan Godspell wish you all a joyous and exciting New Year’s Eve! My intrepid partner and I will be making our slow and happy way back home over the next couple of days, and ze postings will resume their regularity at that time.
A couple of brief thoughts and snapshots from my trip down South:
1. Here is a theological nugget of hmmm proposed by my good friend Matthew John Conley. Matthew supposes that the direction of heaven and hell has been historically presented backwards – and that heaven is actually located downward towards the center of the Earth, where we are pulled on a continual basis by the love of gravity. Hell, on the other hand, is upward, towards the chaos and vacuum of space, and the hot and fiery sun, whom Matthew has decided is hellish in its annoying tendency to fry things and burn people. Bear in mind that Matthew lives in Texas, where the sun’s more benevolent qualities are less evident in the face of 130 degree summers. This is a pretty outstanding example of bioregional theology.
2. Last night we met a lovely individual whose name was Treasure. This is a most excellent name. Likewise, I have also known women by the names of Creature and Bug. The power of names and naming is vast – nothing delights me more than to see an individual empowered by their name, whether a Treasure or a Creature or a Bug.
3. Texas Live Oaks. These are some of my favorite trees in the world. Gnarled and lovely. I have been basking in their presence for days.
Happy New Year! May 2007 bring you joy and rowdy bliss unlike anything you’ve yet experienced.
