Comments on: New Beginnings: The Importance of Circles (And Women’s Circles in Particular) http://www.bookishdark.com/2007/09/new-beginnings-the-importance-of-circles-and-womens-circles-in-particular/ She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain. Fri, 10 Sep 2010 01:51:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: kaizerin http://www.bookishdark.com/2007/09/new-beginnings-the-importance-of-circles-and-womens-circles-in-particular/comment-page-1/#comment-2181 kaizerin Fri, 28 Sep 2007 21:15:33 +0000 http://www.bookishdark.com/?p=128#comment-2181 No, dammit; but it is coming! We've pretty well put paid to September. And a fine old September it was. No, dammit; but it is coming! We’ve pretty well put paid to September. And a fine old September it was.

]]> By: CountessZ http://www.bookishdark.com/2007/09/new-beginnings-the-importance-of-circles-and-womens-circles-in-particular/comment-page-1/#comment-2179 CountessZ Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:40:25 +0000 http://www.bookishdark.com/?p=128#comment-2179 And also, isn't it October 31st yet? And also, isn’t it October 31st yet?

]]> By: CountessZ http://www.bookishdark.com/2007/09/new-beginnings-the-importance-of-circles-and-womens-circles-in-particular/comment-page-1/#comment-2178 CountessZ Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:39:33 +0000 http://www.bookishdark.com/?p=128#comment-2178 It is precisely because you *do* get misty over a song about math that endears you to me for eternity. It is precisely because you *do* get misty over a song about math that endears you to me for eternity.

]]> By: kaizerin http://www.bookishdark.com/2007/09/new-beginnings-the-importance-of-circles-and-womens-circles-in-particular/comment-page-1/#comment-2177 kaizerin Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:38:54 +0000 http://www.bookishdark.com/?p=128#comment-2177 Funny, I was just musing about the human need for belonging on the drive to work today. A line in a song made me choke up a little: "If you ever lose your way, a butterfly will flap its wings, From a million miles away, a little miracle will come to take you home." (Jonathan Coulton, "Mandelbrot Set".) Yes, I'm an enormous dork, getting misty over a song about math, but there's something so affecting about the idea you can never be so lost that you can't find your way home. Even if it takes chaos theory to lead you back again. Your post makes me nostalgic for an all-women book club/study group/meditation circle I attended, also back in Mpls. It quickly became excatly the kind of laugh/cry/share-your-life safe space you're describing. I'm glad you've found something like it again. Funny, I was just musing about the human need for belonging on the drive to work today. A line in a song made me choke up a little: “If you ever lose your way, a butterfly will flap its wings, From a million miles away, a little miracle will come to take you home.” (Jonathan Coulton, “Mandelbrot Set”.) Yes, I’m an enormous dork, getting misty over a song about math, but there’s something so affecting about the idea you can never be so lost that you can’t find your way home. Even if it takes chaos theory to lead you back again.

Your post makes me nostalgic for an all-women book club/study group/meditation circle I attended, also back in Mpls. It quickly became excatly the kind of laugh/cry/share-your-life safe space you’re describing. I’m glad you’ve found something like it again.

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