Tag: Minotaur
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A Once for Now
Don’t you just love myth? Not myth as in magical legends, or purposeful deceptions, you understand, but myth as an explanation of origin, an explanation of values, and as a search for the why and how of cultural identity. Myth is the story of who we think we are, and of the place from whence…
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Trippingly on the Tongue
I’ve always liked the poetry of metaphor with its imagery revealing nuances hiding shyly in the background. Words alone sometimes convey their meanings too narrowly, whereas metaphors allow imagination to roam more freely, only loosely tethered to definitions. After all, depending on the context of its use, meaning is often reliant on Weltanschauung. Such is…
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Barbie in the Mirror
As an Ob/Gyn specialist I have been, I suppose, more than a passive observer of women over the years. But society has not been passive, either. Depending on where you live and in what cultural milieu, issues such as our sizes and shapes have become sources of real anxiety. Unrealistic expectations of morphology no doubt…
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