Oh Canada

RantWoman's drafts folder is still overflowing with what spilled out when RantWoman recently read an astrological invitation to let pterodactyls take flight. Stay tuned.

Here is this week's Canada-themed invitation to Be True to RantWoman's Light:

CANCER (June 21–July 22): Among the surprises spilled by WikiLeaks some months back was the revelation that US diplomats think Canadians feel "condemned to always play 'Robin' to the US 'Batman.'" If that's true, it shouldn't be. While Canada may not be able to rival the warmongering, plutocrat-coddling, environment-despoiling talents of my home country, America, it is a more reliable source of reason, compassion, and civility. Are you suffering from a similar disjunction, Cancerian? Do you imagine yourself "Robin" in relationship to some overweening "Batman"? This would be an excellent time to free yourself of that dynamic.

A sign arrived from the secular world as well:

http://rantwoman.blogspot.com/2011/09/starbucks-card-in-braille-limited-time.html


RantWoman thanks Starbucks for reminding her of National Disabilities Awareness Month. RantWoman invites her readers to stay tuned for the clear leading which has arisen from a whole freight train of circumstances.

Lest RantWoman's readers think RantWoman is about to set upon the world in full bore inner blowtorch on maximum mode, RantWoman is tempering the Free Will Astrology meme with:

two different posts about forgiving 70 x 7 times. RantWoman expects this forgiveness thing probably works both ways but who says RantWoman is necesssarily going to manage to execute?

http://questforadequacy.blogspot.com/2011/09/forgiving.html


http://quakersusanne.wordpress.com/2011/09/25/the-hard-topic-of-forgiveness/



And on the other hand,
http://questforadequacy.blogspot.com/2011/09/nakedness.html

This item looks like something RantWoman would really like to read. Alas, it is only available in print. Whine! RantWoman can either have yet another of her trademark snit fits about changed realities related to reading OR digress on the Canada theme above and fret about when is she going to get around to the post simmering about Canada's Dukhobors and the things one learns when listening well while crossing international borders. What RantWoman heard a number of years ago from a Canada Customs officer quizzing her about her destination sent her off to the library. There Rantwoman learned that a sect which began as pacifists in Russia and settled in Canada developed the purgative practice of periodically stripping themselves naked and burning all their clothing and buildings.

RantWoman figured out, partly from intersecting quizzical looks from the Canada Customs officer that this behavior tends to get one's sect listed as domestic terrorists and even to fry the nerves of and deeply distress some of one's less fervent co-religionists.

RantWoman is, among other things wondering whether the new Naked publication--oranything else in her life--features any themes in similar vein.