Protect our "first ' children from danger

protect the obama children from exploitation --=making the dolls reminds me of voodo. whoever is making money by exploiting those children should oo

Making dolls of the oObama children hints  of voodoo ism, Those exploiting  children should be proseuted, Too many children are endangered in our society.The Obama girls are exceptionally vulnerable to harm.

protect the obama chhildren

"If you were a god," I  said to Odysseus once as we lay on the forest floor, "I would expect you to be peevish, boastful, vain, deceitful and vengeful. But since you' re a man, I expect you to be kind, strong and wise."

"And if you were a goddess, " he replied, "What could I expect from you?"

"Perfect understanding," I said.

 from How Odysseus Escapes the Goddess, Calypso

ILLUSTRATIONS INSPIRED BY ADRIENNE'S WORK

paper lithography and pastels

  The poem "she follows. she clings" explores the feminine archetypes both neg and pos.  The images in the poem identify some of the modern equivalents of  the archetypes described by Jung. 

How Circe Bewitches Men into Swine

"Why did you name me Circe?" I asked my mother.

"Because she was beautiful," my mother said.

"Wasn't she wicked? Didn't she turn men into  swine?"

"They always blame the woman," my mother said.

at the stone garden

widowhood -a club nobody wants to join.

Humans are not bulbs planted in autumn to bloom again in spring. She has come to visit absence.

from story, Elsewhen

What is a blessing? May you have what you wish.

Joy and grief are private rooms.

from Songs of the Dybbuk

on war

Men step from war to war as one steps from stone to stone over a raging brook.

on religion

what you believe is personal, how you dress it up is institutional