Pussy Willow

Image via Wikipedia"I have a little pussy,
Her coat is silver grey,
I found her in the meadow,
Not very far away,
My little silver pussy,
Will never be a cat,
'Cause she's a pussy-willow,
Now what do you think of that' - trad. rhyme.

Pussy willow fronds were often collected when families 'went a-palming' to collect plants suitable to stand in for palm fronds for Palm Sunday.

meet my family... easter 2011

It's easter and it's the second time of the year that the whole family gathers together (the first is Christmas). Uncles, aunts, cousins, friends, grandmothers and my grandpa meet at my house to eat and have fun! 

My family RULES, let me introduce them...

my cousin Penny and I

my Grandmother

my mum

with my cousin George

my dad

with my cousin Penny

my cousins Penny and George

with my cousins Mike and Penny

my friends Kiriakos and John

with my grandpa

my dad

my uncle Vlassis and my aunt Mari

my aunt Leika

greek "giros"

dad drinking beer

daddy cool

my uncle drinking beer

My cousin George and I

photos by: my cousin Mike Rompokos

Chocolate Easter Bunnies-- What?!

Easter Funnies.

Easter, It's Spring again

I was amused by one of the blogs calling themselves feminist theologian. Oops! Feminism is not about propagating patriarchal fantasies with women writing to support it even if one writes about women in those fantasies.

London feminist free thinkers had this to say this year about Easter:
"Let us reclaim 'Easter' named after various European goddesses, not about a man on a cross, but about the celebration of the Spring Solstice - a folk festival of warmth, light, women and fertility, a few drinks and eats perhaps to make the evening go with a swing. We still have the relics - flowers, chocolate eggs and rabbits. Let's remind everyone that it is only a religious 'celebration of a crucifixion' to Christians."
Women remain repressed and not celebrated enough in the world still oppressive to them in many way and in many state institutions.
Easter is a name given to festivals marking the change of seasons on planet Earth, where many confused and ignorant people have lived for a long time. In the last couple of thousands of years patriarchal religions made out of it a fantasy of supernatural resuscitation. I wonder how things would be if male fertility was not so obscure to people for such a long time and if it was celebrated equally from the start.

If you would like to know the science of how to calculate when Easter should be read here.

Elephant in the Room video here.