New Ring

[poliphilo]

We took Ailz's engagement ring in to be taken down a size and the silversmith (who made it) said she didn't dare touch it because the silver was worn so thin she was afraid it would fall to pieces.

So we've retired it and bought another.

The old ring is set with an alexanderite- a man-made stone that changes with the light from a reddish purple to a steely blue.

The new ring is set with a deep purple amethyst.

I guess one can't really get engaged again, but, hey....

I love you, Ailz.

Comments

Re: Totally OT, but--

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Well I remember Philip Carr Gomm asking for permission to quote me, but I didn't know he'd actually gone ahead and done it.

What larks!

If it's not to much trouble, could you tell me what it is I had to say?

Re: Totally OT, but--

[saskia139.livejournal.com]

No trouble at all! I happen to have the book with me at work today.

As Tony Grist, former vicar turned Pagan, poet and novelist, wrote in The Guardian, 'The archetype of the Goddess is breaking through everywhere; in feminism obviously, in the Green movement with its Gaia hypothesis, in the occult revival and the New Age religions. Even the patriarchal religions are having to come to terms with Her.... In Christianity the campaign for women priests and the recognition by radical theologians that God is also Our Mother are all signs of her insistent troublesome presence.'

He doesn't give a citation, alas.

Pardon me for being nosey, but in your user profile you write, "I've been an Anglican priest, a Pagan and a Wiccan High Priest and now I'm nothing in particular." By "nothing in particular" do you mean you have become an atheist or agnostic, or do you mean simply that you no longer use a label or participate in a group that requires one?

Re: Totally OT, but--

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Thanks for that. It'll be from one of the articles I wrote for the Face To Faith column.

I stopped practising Wicca two or three years back. Since then I've drifted, waiting to see what turns up. I'm still very interested in religion, and happy to talk theology and mythology, but I don't feel the need to belong to any particular group or take part in any kind of ritual.