Thought for the day:

All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy - Spike Milligan

I give up. I've been promising a Sicily blog for TWO MONTHS, and I can't quite manage to write it. Therefore, it must not want to be written. I keep having ideas for a blog and thinking 'oh but i have to write the Sicily one first' - well bollocks! Sicily was great, everyone should go there. Fini.

One very cool thing did happen - I had the Goddess experience I've been after :o)

My friend and I had had a bit of a tiff, so we went our separate ways for an afternoon. I wandered into Taormina, had a gelati (best icecream in HISTORY), got caught in a short sharp shower....and a beautiful little old church caught my eye. It was, of course, a Catholic church, and the doors were standing open. An old man came out as I went in, and I was alone in the church.

The first thing I saw was a beautiful Madonna and Child statue behind the altar. As I looked around, I realised that this was to all intents and purposes, a church to Mary. There were statues of her everywhere, and only one of Jesus alone.

I sat in the second row of pews (didn't feel confident enough to sit at the front of the class), and I just looked at that Madonna and Child. As I looked at Her, a perception of Motherhood stole over me, growing larger and larger, until it filled my consciousness and beyond, encompassing all Motherhood - Mother Mary, Mother Earth, my mother, my grandmother, all mothers everywhere, and my own potential motherhood.

As with all esoteric experiences, it is so hard to describe, but I think the best way to put it is 'God as Mother/Mother as God'. But even that is insufficient - argh! Perhaps 'Mother God as all'...

Well, if anyone reading has ever had a consciousness-expanding experience, perhaps they will understand my poor words :o)

Another fluff blog until I get to posting my holiday stories and the serious blog:

Mel Gibson's anti-Semite rant has me a bit puzzled. Disclaimer: Everything he is reported to have said about Jews is bad and he shouldn't have said it.

BUT - why is it ok when he is rampantly anti-English and not ok when he is anti-Semite?

He has been anti-English for YEARS, and as proof I offer Braveheart and The Patriot, neither of which have a single 'good' English character - all the many English characters in both films are bad. Why is it ok to make films rubbishing my country but not ok to say nasty things about another country/race? Why is it that an accusation of anti-Semitism can wreck a career, but not one of anti-Americanism, anti-Britishism, anti-Koreanism and so forth?

Maybe it's because the Jews have been very persecuted throughout history, and so might be understandably sensitive about jerkoff statements like Mel's. I'm not denying that they have been through some serious shit, but what I don't get is why the double standard.

If anyone reading this can shed any light, I would welcome it! Maybe I'm missing something really obvious, I don't know...