Thanks, Bev!

Bambi Wiggle....LOL. That is a MOST excellent idea. Leave it to those loyal readers to see through an existential dilemma and come up with the best of both worlds.

Well, you know, that's an excellent question, Anna. If I were writing only for myself, I wouldn't be keeping a blog, I'd be keeping a journal. That's the point at which I sway over to my sister's view of blogging. I don't think I do it for my own sense of satisfaction. It is definitely, absolutely, for me in some fashion, but is that primary? I'm not at all sure about that. When I try for analogies (not that they're that much help) I tend to think of myself more like a columnist....do columnists write "for themselves" or for publication? I won't say I'm the latter, because I'm not. But I surely float somewhere in between.

How about forwarding the blog to them, and they post *their* most influential teacher? That would be cool.

Hey, come back to this blog and write when you've read it. I'll be interested to know what you think.

Ah. Going where your heart tells you to go. I'm familiar with that. :)

With all due respect, "what you actually said" was in a different language than Sharon is speaking. It is truly as if you are speaking Icelandic (assuming she doesn't know Icelandic) and she is speaking Nepali (assuming you don't know Nepali). I really think that's it. They are not only different perspectives, but entirely different vocabularies and meanings.

I think that's what Mary Daly was saying--and I think that's why so many people misunderstand her, when they think they do understand.

Good point, Laurie.

I don't know that I would say she was free of patriarchy. How could that be possible?

Her writing is transformative. Yes.

Thank you, Audrey, for this comment. Sadly, I do not hold out much hope for a new generation of women to read her work...but I hope I'm wrong.

Yes. She lived her beliefs 100%. Who does that?

I have heard that her wishes for her "funeral" were that women read her work and get together and discuss it. I'm on it.

Thanks for your comment, John. Which book did you order?