"we shall not cease from exploration

"and the end of our exploring
will be to arrive where we started
and know the place for the first time.
through the unknown, remembered gate
when the last of earth left to discover
is that which is the beginning;
at the source of the longest river
the voice of the hidden waterfall
and the children in the apple-tree
not known, because not looked for
but heard, half-heard, in the stillness
between two waves of the sea."
--T.S. Eliot

Speaking of money...Anais Nin wrote erotica to make money

I am not interested in that type of writing even though I adore all Nin's previous books. I also understand why --during her era-- the only way she could use her extaordinary gifts and talents in a man's world, was to write crap to entertain men.

I really do understand why she did what she did at the time she did it. If I lived in her era, it is likely I would have come to the same conclusion if I wanted to continue to sustain my life, just like the next guy.

But, fortunately, because of women like Nin, I don't have to use my gifts and talents to write crap to entertain the most base elements of man.

I think I will keep writing whatever I want to write

I stopped writing for a while for several reasons but I guess everyone needs a break now and then. I am going to start writing again about the things that interest me. Lately, money interests me. I am interested in how to create a means to sustain my life. In our culture, that means learning how to not only make money, but decide to save money too but that's not the end of it either because once we decide to save the money we learned to earn, then we have to learn how to make those savings grow. That is what I want to do here in this blog because as a woman, that is the most important thing to me at this time in my life.

I am not religious but I do find myself still praying the Lord's Prayer and the Hail Mary -- in the back of my mind -- on many occassions. It is curiuos that though I was held accountable to many Catholic doctrines and dogmas, I was never taught the rosary -- which of course is why I am curious now (tee hee). I do not ascribe to the religious doctrines, though I do find many characteristics for human behavior helpful in everyday life. (i.e.: when tempted to lift something that isn't mine, and no one will see me, i remember "thou shalt not steal.")