A Pagan's Blog

I found a way in to post - courtesy of the error I made on my last blog post.  I'll correct it  when I leave Maine.  But again, that post that should have been there is here.  Enjoy

  It's an Open Thread for now.  I take off for the West Coast tomorrow.  Business as usual soon.  Once I get a new computer.

Meanwhile Midcoast Maine is wonderful. Crisp and chilly but sunny.

Courtesy of Balloon Juice, a very nice piece by Faun.

I spent all of yesterday crossing the country from California to Maine.   I'm taking advantage of a free ticket I got from being "bumped" on a flight months ago in order to be at my godson's birthday party up mid-coast way.

I got up a lot earlier than I like to get the flight, and  got in a lot later than was planned due to the torrential rains that have hit the east.  Even so, I made it to be by 11 pm West Coast time, only to be awakened by screaming children in the hallway at 7 East Coast time.  That's 4 am where I come from.  My affection for children took a bit of a hit - but most of my grumpy thoughts I saved for their thoughtless parents.

For this Westerner, Maine is as beautiful as any state in the West, and for me, midcoast and 'down east' are the most beautiful parts of Maine.   Even with the low and soggy sky my drive to Rockland will be wonderful, if I can just stay awake enough to enjoy it.  There is a wonderful coffee house in Wiscasset that should show up abut the time my breakfast coffee wears off, not that it feels like it every really took hold.

Even so, Hail Kaffeina!  Lady of Life!

 (I couldn't find any nice Google images of the towns, which are beautiful,  but the pics of the country around them are nice.)

More substantive posts will happen after I get some good sleep!

Some interesting comments about my "Drawing Down the Moon" piece in "12 Things..." have prompted me to offer a longer discussion, based mostly on my personal experience. 

The anti-choice folks have struck again, holding over 60% of the country hostage to their irrational beliefs as a price for health care reform.  No health care reform unless abortion is made even more difficult than it already is.  If thousands die from lack of insurance, well, as Lenin said, you cannot make an omelet without breaking eggs. Their lives are not as important as a zygote's. But abortion is MURDER these [eople whine.  Let's examine that example, based on logic rather than carefully chosen Biblical texts that ignore other longer and more detailed texts.
 

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