MEMBER BLOG TAG: eostre
| Sunday, March 1, 2009 12:42PM | | | | Spring cleaning for the soul... | Tags: lent, Conrad black, Osiris, Tammuz, spiritual renewal, Eostre
| | | I'm never quite ready for Lent. It seems to creep up on cat's paws too quickly and before I've fully recuperated from Christmas, there I am at the altar, having someone smear my forehead with ashes and being reminded of my own mortality. "Remember, woman, that thou art dust and until dust shalt thou return."
Not that I don't think about my mortality on most days. I'm one of those people who find the contemplation of my own death oddly comforting. I'm not in any hurry, you understand, but it does grant a certain perspective, and helps to whittle petty annoyances down to size.
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