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User:catelin (27952) Paid User catelin
Name:Cate
Website:atomicpetals
E-mail:
ccompton@optonline.net
Bio:...I struggle with enormous discrepancies: between the reality of motherhood and the image of it, between my love for my home and the need to travel, between the varied and seductive paths of the heart. The lessons of impermanence, the occasional despair and the muse, so tenuously moored, all visit their needs upon me and I dig deeply for the spiritual utilities that restore me: my love for the place, for the one man left, for my children and friends and the great green pulse of spring.
--Sally Mann, Still Time catalogue
Alleghany Highlands Arts and Crafts Center, 1988




PLANETARIUM

(Thinking of Caroline Herschel, 1750-1848, astronomer, sister of William; and others)

A woman in the shape of a monster
a monster in the shape of a woman
the skies are full of them

a woman     "in the snow
among the Clocks and instruments 
or measuring the ground with poles"

in her 98 years to discover
8 comets
she whom the moon ruled
like us
levitating into the night sky
riding the polished lenses

Galaxies of women, there
doing penance for impetuousness
ribs chilled

in those spaces     of the mind
An eye,
"virile, precise and absolutely certain"
from the mad webs of Uranisborg
                        encountering the NOVA

every impulse of light exploding
from the core
as life flies out of us

Tycho whispering at last
"Let me not seem to have lived in vain"

What we see, we see
and seeing is changing

the light that shrivels a mountain
and leaves a man alive

Heartbeat of the pulsar
heart sweating through my body

The radio impulse
pouring in from Taurus

I am bombarded yet     I stand

I have been standing all my life in the
direct path of a battery of signals
the most accurately transmitted most
untranslateable language in the universe
I am a galactic cloud so deep     so invo-
luted that a light wave could take 15
years to travel through me     And has

taken     I am an instrument in the shape
of a woman trying to translate pulsations
into images     for the relief of the body
and the reconstruction of the mind.

---Adrienne Rich



Note: If you found your way here, welcome. From 5/20/02, my journal was generally not for public viewing. I am going back and changing that and most of my journal will be public from here on out. I keep a revolving friends list, so I add and subtract at will. It's nothing personal and I'm more than glad to get to know you outside of the LJ arena if we hit it off. Once in a while, I will feel compelled to add someone to my own list whose words or interests have intrigued me. If you find yourself added, and I haven't said hello, please excuse my poor etiquette. I'm actually friendly once you get to know me, but awful, awkward and shy with introductions. Oh, and just to avoid any confusion, "catelin" is not my name. I am a Cate or a Cathy. I happily answer to either. Catelin is actually a reference to the creator of one of the very oldest surviving tarot with numbered trumps and one of my favorite decks. I'm big on symbols and signs, as you will soon discover if you don't already know.
Memories:24 entries
Interests:150: amazing grace, ani difranco, avocados, bagpipes, beat generation, bill hicks, billie holiday, black dahlia, black flag, bollywood, borges, bruce campbell, bruno ganz, bud cort, bukowski, burlesque, café tacuba, canned heat, carlos fuentes, celts, charlie parker, chaucer, cheese, chet baker, christopher walken, cocteau twins, coltrane, crochet, cuban heel stockings, dark irish, derrida, diego rivera, documentaries, doris lessing, dorothy parker, druids, erotica, flannery o'connor, flowers, folk, frida kahlo, full moons, gardenias, gardening, gaugin, gentility, guy de maupassant, h.p. lovecraft, harold & maude, harry dean stanton, harvey keitel, hemingway, herbs, history, honor, hummingbirds, irony, joni mitchell, jules de grandin, justice, karma, kisses, lakes, latinoamérica, laughing, letters, lili taylor, linguistics, loyalty, lucinda williams, magick, magnolias, malkovich, manners, margaritas, memories, mexico, miles davis, modigliani, movies, muralists, mystery, mythology, nabokov, nancy drew, neruda, nick drake, noam chomsky, nostalgia, nyc, oatmeal cookies, old hollywood, paul strand, peppers, perry mason, picts, poetry, portents, punk, rain, raphael soyer, raymond chandler, real gentlemen, red lipstick, richard brautigan, ricki lee jones, rivers, road trips, robert e. howard, rockabilly, ruben blades, runes, santa fe, santa sabina, sartre, satire, sewing, short stories, silvio rodriguez, siqueiros, southern hospitality, studs terkel, sumo, sylvia plath, tamales, tarot, tattoos, the chieftains, thomas burnett swann, tina modotti, trees, trinkets, trivialities, troubadours, truman capote, truth, twilight, van morrison, vargas, vargas llosa, vintage pin-ups, weird tales, white trash, wicca, wildcrafting, william faulkner, wim wenders, wine, words, writing. [Modify yours]
Friends:143: _ursa_, alchemi, anabug, anonymousblack, archon, ariabeltane, art_hag, authenticfake, baldanders, baseproduct, benje, bizetsy, bjohnson, blackhellkat, blackmagic, blueframmento, bookfoole, budhaboy, buscemi, carouselrose, cassielsander, cathead9, chachachana, chaizzilla, channelinglucy, cheapdialogue, cheshireneko, corylus, coyotegoth, crowgrl, curtislinderman, dabrooklyn, daikusei, daisydumont, danjite, davidelauq, devilbadtz, digitalis, doctorgogol, drfardook, eleanor, emrecom, ennev, epiphany, ernunnos, evangelinedream, fabulist, fayzee, ferretsofglory, fireangel_999, flying_blind, forestwalker, forioscribe, frawst, froglegs, ginnymarie, glembe, harriet_m_welsh, highndry, hobbitblue, iamkatia, indiefilmpage, inflammatio, jaarronn, jet, joeyhemlock, jourdannex, just_a_chick_03, justamy, kalliope, kayeyem, kenshi, kissel, lacyunderall, leisaie, lisalemonjello, lo_pan, lolliejean, lyeta, majorweather, mallade, maqtul, mariquita, marthy, maya12, mcintyre, mindme, mrmustard, multifacetsflux, muzer, nandan, nataliep, news, nickelchief, nihilistic_kid, ninjalicious, omy, pandemo, pepper23, pjammer, puffpastry, quiet_life, quuf, raindog, raveen, razorart, redmagnetic, rhapsodyinblue, rm, roadnotes, rockstarbob, rothko, schpahky, senormisterioso, seventhsister, shigolch, skythief, slit, soeursansmerci, sorrento, spleenless, suladog, sun__king, sun_set_bravely, susanstinson, tafkak, tamperevident, tessed, theotoky, tired_pirate, todfox, tsarina, us_again, verbminx, verdandi, verian, viedma, violetisblue, wailaki, wisteria, wolfdreamer, wyattgwyon, zombiechu
Friend of:237: _ursa_, aiobheil, alchemi, anabug, annieo, anonymousblack, antares, archon, ariabeltane, art_hag, atypicality, authenticfake, baldanders, barefootgeek, baseproduct, benje, bizetsy, bjohnson, blackhellkat, blackmagic, blueframmento, bookfoole, bratgirl66, breedevan, budhaboy, buscemi, bwh, captain_tralfaz, carouselrose, cassielsander, cathead9, chachachana, chaizzilla, channelinglucy, cheapdialogue, cheshireneko, circumambulate, collarbonepixie, corylus, coyotegoth, crowgrl, curtislinderman, dabrooklyn, daikusei, daisydumont, dalibor, danjite, daphnep, davidelauq, devilbadtz, digitalis, disconscious, doctorgogol, dom_dom, drfardook, dryft, edensfree, eleanor, emmasee100, emrecom, enaid, ennev, epiphany, ernunnos, evangelinedream, eyetooth, fabulist, fakeazulhair, fatherdan, fayzee, fearsclave, feelingsdrop, fei_hong, felius, felixstatic, ferretsofglory, fifthconundrum, fireangel_999, flying_blind, forestwalker, forioscribe, frawst, friedrich, friendlyheretic, froglegs, ginnymarie, glembe, glitterypixie, gloriajn, golackey, guerrera, gypsydancer, harriet_m_welsh, highndry, hobbitblue, holdmycoat, iamkatia, ibyi, indiefilmpage, inflammatio, istorin, jaarronn, jacasimov, jet, jmilton, joeyhemlock, joshparty, jourdannex, just_a_chick_03, justamy, kalika, kalliope, kar3n, karlwest, kayeyem, kehua, kemelios, kenshi, kissel, kricker, kudzublossom, lacyunderall, leisaie, lengua, lisalemonjello, littlebudha, lo_pan, lolliejean, lovefield, lyeta, majorweather, mallade, maqtul, mariquita, marthy, maya12, mcintyre, mgansle, mindgames4one, mindme, missprune, mrmustard, mskatie, muggleton, multifacetsflux, muzer, nandan, nataliep, nickelchief, nightgarden, ...
Member of:24: academics_anon, crochet, death_by_light, feministas, fiberarts, herbal, jazzclub, judasstarlet, livejardin, ljover30, naturalmed, nonduality, outofbubblegum, pagan, paidmembers, reasonablewomen, southernwriters, sublimethinking, surreal_women, tarot, tattooshowdown, thingsofbeauty, visualpoetry, zine_scene
Account type:Paid Account

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