Cut the damned mattress tags off! Keeping them on for years just because they say so! NOT! They say "DO NOT REMOVE UNDER PENALTY OF LAW"

The knowers of the female soul
practice deep disciplines to keep
the deeper level constantly in reach. 
It may be physical work, intellectual
work, or spiritual work, or
sometimes a combination of all three.

The modern-day quest for
spiritual solace is in accord
with the serenity-seeking woman. 
Spirituality is gaining popularity
over "religion."  It isn't that
spirituality is pushing out religion. 
Spirituality is shaking up religion 
Spirituality embraces a
wider body of experiences,
and is a matter of the
woman being open to new things,
experimenting with spiritual
resources, new forms of Light,
other than the doctrines of the
church they have inherited from
their parents.

Cut the damned mattress tags off! 
Keeping them on for years just because
they say so!  NOT!  They say "DO NOT
REMOVE UNDER PENALTY OF LAW"

Cut the damned mattress tags off already! 
I do.  I am a shrugger.  Resist enculturation
and meaningless policies!

It's a time in a woman's life when she
is drawn to the rawhide, which has been de-haired and cured, but not tanned.  When rawhide is soaked in warm water, it becomes pliable
and dries in whatever shape it's given, just like a woman.  Now there are times in a woman's life where she has no need to have things fit into others' perception of how it ought to be...


Copyright 2006 Sage Sweetwater, firebrand lesbian novelist