In case it sounded like I was romanticizing our TV fast, I should mention that we JUST started "Lost" before the beginning of lent. Talk about bad ideas.
Today I was feeling a little gross due to a combination of having to grade papers, eating a bunch of girl scout cookies, and not using shampoo for the past week (more on that later). Luckily, things got better when Ani came on Pandora. It seemed like an appropriate fasting song with all of the shrouds we are trying to give up before Easter.
Shroud by Ani Difranco
And go forth naked from its doors
'cause women should be allies
And not competitors
I had to leave the house of god
Because the cross replaced the wheel
And the goddesses were all out in the garden
With the plants that nurture and heal
I had to leave the house of privilege
Spend Christmas homeless and feeling bad
To learn privilege is a headache
That you don't know that you don't have
I had to leave the house of television
To start noticing the clouds
It's amazing the stuff you see when
You finally shed that shroud
I had leave the house of conformity
In order to make art
I had to be more and less true
To learn to tell the two apart
I had to leave the house of fear
Just about as soon as I could crawl
Ignore my face on a wanted poster
Stuck to the post office wall
I had leave the house of self-importance
To doodle my first tattoo
To realize a tattoo is no more permanent
Than I am, and who
Ever said that life is suffering
I think they had their finger on the pulse of joy
Ain't the power of transcendence
the greatest one we can employ
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