A dozen and a half words need said ... wake up and smell the vinegar!

Metaphorically, the calendar says Easter is here.  Several years ago, at the opening ceremonies for the XVII Olympic Games held in Lilliehammer, Norway, the Norwegian folk dancers swirled around a giant egg.  In Norwegian myth, the world was created from the primeval Tellus Egg, which symbolizes unity and wholeness.

This piece of information is well-received, telling women there is much more to the egg than a coat of lavender.  It is a symbol of creativity, birth, and fertility, something women should remember when dyeing eggs with their children at the kitchen table where there should be unity and family stability.

All natural Goddess-given ingredients should be used to dye the eggs.  Walnut shells, red and yellow onions, red cabbage, beets, and marigold petals color the holiday instead of commercial pigments.

Through this natural egg-dying process, fertile creations will peel off from the woman's fissured interior, and her society-stained outer shell will come alive with nature's healing colors, leaving behind hard-boiled attitudes and cracked emotions from ugly incidents.

Egg-dying isn't given to any one season.  If a woman needs to dye a natural egg to "crack out" of depression, anxiety, and capture, then she must wake up and smell the vinegar.

 

Copyright 2005 Sage Sweetwater, firebrand lesbian novelist