Status Updates From Las bodas de Cadmo y Harmonía

If, driven by an old compulsion, we were to define what the gods were to the Greeks, we might say, using a Occam’s razor, everything that takes us away from the ordinary sensations of life. “With a god, you are always crying and laughing,” we read in Sophocles’ Ajax. Life is a mere vegetative protestations, glazed eyes looking out on the world, the certainty of being oneself, without knowing what one is…

do NOT ask Persephone how wild mint came to be …

Just finished book VII. Focused on Demeter and Persephone and the deal that was made to send Hades’ bride back to him half the year. Representing the rotation of the earth and the changing of seasons.