There is a site Our Lady of the Red Thread of devotion to Our Lady. I feel closest to this Lady of all the published connections that i have come across. My first 'visitation" came in 1975 when I was working for the county and Gerald was coming to see Amy. I was still rattled by the guilt over abandoning Lisa and Shawn and then my marriage to Gerald. I wrote a poem that day entitled "Holy Mother Of Tears". I knew nothing about Mary and I didn't ,yet, understand Jung referring to the majesty of the Assumption of Mary. I had been raised Protestant with no reference to the Feminine except in our mothers, sisters, selves,aunts and cousins and grandmothers and was totally unprepared for a visit from Our Mother but that is what happened. Not anything magical no Presence,etc but a full grown ,full fleshed understanding of the Holy Mother of Tears, of Her presence in my life. Truthfully there has been no other religion or faith besides her in my heart-I didn't realize this as I tasted Buddhism,meditation,etc. I eventually joined the Catholics under the protection of the old civil rights/human rights priests and nuns but had to exit when the new priest taking father George's place issued a Sunday bulletin advising "all gay,bisexuals,lesbian and transgender to seek church at Newman Hall where they would be welcome. Broke my heart and was the beginning of the end for me although I still miss certain rites such as Ash Wednesday and the getting of ashes and I continue to love the mass and the music-have a bookmark for the Anonymous 4 from Stanford-my soul vibrates to that sound.
I have discovered a wonderful way to serve the clemtines and other oranges: slice fully ripe ones that are sweet and juicy sprinkle with salt and chile sauce. I love Trader Joe's jalapeno hot sauce but if I am out Crystal hot sauce works very well. when I first started eating this no one believed me but when I serve it up they all really li8ke the combination. I got the idea from Mexican's and the way they serve fruit salad with citrus and red pepper the heat of the chili somehow makes the fruit sweeter.
I plan to make the squash and lentil soup today even though the beautiful fog will probably burn away and there will be warm,sunny weather.
the oven is broken won't heat up only up to 275 degrees-yuck.
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