What's happened to Stella Maris' column this week?

[Berlioz]

:ohwell: Is Stella still sick? If so, get well soon and start writing your columns again. Please!

[StellaMaris]

I'm here, I'm still alive. My flu turned into bronchitis and I missed the Fortean UnConvention. I've been so miserable that Chip relented and gave me the week off...

I've been trying to post to this blasted forum by logging in to the box that is labelled Log In, silly me, but Jarrod says that we have to log in on the front page, which I've now done, so hopefully this will work!

Blech.:goodbye:

[Rosenbaum]

Hi Stella!
I'm sorry to hear you've been sick. You know, I'm sure, the restorative powers of honey (particularly when mixed with the water of life)!

I noticed that you too share a passion for Miss Atwood and, by an association of ideas, I was reminded on this insight from our mutual friend's vademecum:

"Saturn or the self-willed life can only be overcome in the process by satiation; he must be given from without plenty "of the honey of the bees”, the aurific seed, the Rational Light.

He first of all entraps the Light, and then he longs for more to feed that center which he has entrapped, and just as a seed which has drawn light from the sun longs for more and so grows until it bursts out of the Saturnine husk into a flower, and soon no longer grows for itself but for another generation and becomes transmuted, so the selfish Saturnine life in man when once it has passed into its new life, or rather admitted it, assimilates that life into itself and becomes itself transmuted.

As man was the Quintessence of the whole creation, so woman was the Quintessence of man — the love-spirit was in her."

In this area, as in so many, Miss Atwood has been for me, if I may paraphrase a beloved Canadian fellow-traveller, "as constant as the Northern Star".

May your energy be swiftly returned to you.

Abeline:wink: