Gee, thanks, Lou….I was in Memphis for a summer art show a good while back…maybe near the Pink Palace? I forget…but I was staying with a friend from high school (Central High in the late fifties….my dad was at St. Mary’s Cathedral for three years…)..she had a shop in the Peabody..maybe "Crescent Moon"…don’t know how long you’ve been there….Part of pledge week for high school sororities was climbing the fence at Graceland to see if you could come back with an Elvis memento before the guard caught ya…..Can you say a hundred years ago? I love Memphis….Central was fabulous then….Beale Street was still just a very dark slum in those days…

I started in at wow after the Charlie Rose interview with the ladies…I had just been given a computer after a ten year absence from cyber anything…It has been, for me, the sun, the moon and the stars…escape from the boondocks of the mind…The recent spite and malice show got my panties in a wad and I got deleted a bunch so I just backed off..sort of a bad case of "post-partisan depression"….but I really missed the buddies.. I’m OK with the guys’ presence…mostly…just don’t have the time or inclination to engage in adult education if it doesn’t have a prayer of making a difference….Not at a cocktail party…not here….I try to grant them the fact that we are wired differently…but I am weary with the old white guys track record…

When I went to the Google page for Campbell, it was pretty overwhelming…The Masks of God is pretty daunting…multi-volume….The hero with a Thousand Faces is probably more accessible…If you can find the videos from The Power of Myth, that was terrific…a long series of hour shows with Bill Moyers….that brought Campbell a lot of attention and "converts"…from the late 80’s-90’s…Lots of study groups formed up after that…And if you are a Moyers fan, you’ll be doubly happy. There is a companion volume to the show if you can’t see the videos.(Amazon? cheap?) Underlying all of Campbell is the Jungian concept of the collective unconscious..This was by first big "Well… DUH….!" moment…

I tend a woodstove all winter…for love, money and absolute necessity….ice storm wasn’t fun with no power for two weeks….Georgia fatwood is a type of piney heartwood that is split and sold as a sort of "designer kindling". I always ask Santa Claus for a bundle or two…It makes fire starting a total joy. In the seventies I was a member of a contemporary quilting group…I think they’re called "art quilts" these days….and we did a series of small quilts "named" for imaginary women…."Georgia Fatwood" was one who captured our collective "figment"….along with Page Turner, Pearl Barleigh, Anita Springwater, Ima Nevasaynevah (we stole that one) Hannah Mia Downes, etc…..My granddaughters have a chum named Georgia and I love that "old" names are coming back into favor…. 

I live in an orange crate masquerading as a house built in the early 1800’s on a shelf of land down the river bluff on the Ohio between Louisville and Cincinnati…("I can see Indiana from my house!"..A T-shirt waiting to happen…….and, yes, we have a real Sarah Palin in the Palin-Woolfolk family cemetery in our little eight-block town….ooo-o-oo-hhhhh…..) I am happy to hear from you and remember Alice Roosevelt Longworth’s fancy embroidered sofa pillow with the motto…"If you can’t say anything nice about anybody, sit right here next to me…."  

Frannie Em,

There is no golden rule unless you live it yourself. 

That’s the most profound statement any of us, anywhere, can ever hear and/or believe. Would that we all heeded it.

Miss Suzanne, the "nasty comments" were out in full force. Several pages worth have been deleted.

In answer to the last two questions, we righteous right wing Christian conservatives do enjoy conversing with ourselves. I remember one trult golden thread where the witticisms about various liberals, quasi liberals, socialists and of course the non-citizen Obama, and congratulations thereon, went on for eight solid pages. Ah, THOSE were the days!