if e'er we lay upon the sun for baking bread

may we toast our children buff-brown

and each slice of us is nourishment for the clan

*We should remember that gaggle of Mary's left at the cross, the only ones of Jesus' followers who endured the stripping of all hope and expectation about what he was to each of them - teacher, brother, lover-and what he was to be for the world- priest, prophet, king, over thrower of the established order.  All that is stripped away,  annihilated, made into nothing.  Yet, still the women remain, near the concrete person, wanting to tend the concrete body.  They stay through the death of their projections, through the suffering of the disidentifications, stay on through a painful, ignorant, frightened waiting, wanting to receive the utterly new, even if afraid, waiting and wanting even unto the dark coming of his death.  They stay on in the dark and through and beyond the dark.  And so it is to women that the resurrection is first announced.
-Ann Belford Ulanov

[my addendum: ...and yet, they ran away from the tomb, afraid, and telling no one; (based on the original resurrection story in St. Mark)]



*Any philosophy or religion that prevents the blossoming of the human personality is worthless.
-Mohammed Iqbal



Human nature: the beautiful face with the ugly scars.