Saturday, October 29, 2005

Menstrual Cycle Wisdom

How might it have been different for you if, on your first menstrual day, your mother had given you a bouquet of flowers and taken you to lunch, and then the two of you had gone to meet your father at the jeweler, where your ears were pierced, and your father bought you your first pair of earrings, and then you went with a few of your friends and your mother’s friends to get your first lip coloring; and then you went, for the very first time, to the Women’s lodge, to learn the wisdom of women? How might you be different?
-Judith Duerk, Circle of Stones

Read more here. (Although, I must say... the article looks "cut"... it talks about the beginning and middle phases of the cycle and forgot to talk about the ending phase...)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi grace with fire, I've been searching around for ugliest related blogs to get some ideas and possibly trade links with. I found this entry (Menstrual Cycle Wisdom) in my search so I thought I'd post a quick note to let you know. Anyway I have a new blog called Ugly Blog, so feel free to check it out but don't feel obligated. Take care - Eric

Nine Lives said...

thank you for letting me know, eric.

i don't understand, though, why a throughtful discussion on the significance of a woman's menstrual cycle would be classified as ugly. either the search engines aren't doing their work well, or they're really basically just stupid.

it's a sad commentary on the state of mind of their creators though.

good luck on your own blogging. may you get what you desire (c'mon... you really wish for nobody to read it? : > ), or something better.