This post is about the abduction of Proserpina (Persephone to the Greeks), the grief of her parent Ceres, goddess of earth and agriculture, and the attempts by Zeus, the god of sky and thunder and the most powerful among the gods of Olympus, to save her. To bring fertility and a wife to Zeus’ barren … More Proserpina – Go Home Abducted Child
On Rosh Hashana, the New Year in autumn, I walked Rui down to East Broadway in New York to peer into the windows of the study houses where men with long gray beards and black caftans swayed over their books, like Roman Vishniac photographs come to life. There, down at the East River where “bubas” … More Hine Ma Tov
This is what I’m commenting on this NYT editorial. See an image of the piece at the bottom of this post. Here is the URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/25/opinion/men-who-needs-them.html?_r=1 By now, I think everyone should hate male-bashing just about as much as sexism. I’m all for a materialist, scientific understanding of life, of the biological underpinnings of it … More Who Needs Men? Sons and Daughters.
The video clip below is something I saw on Youtube that reminded me again, again, again, (like I need to be reminded?) that Machiko’s drive to divorce and abduction is a miserably narcissistic and cruel thing to do to Rui. I didn’t want to divorce her; in the end, I wanted to live with my … More Divorce Conflict Madness – Machiko Terauchi’s Indifference to Rui
For Rui Boy 