I turned in my letter and they had no problems. Pity I had such a hard time getting the stupid letter at the TX store.
I missed work because I was sick. Oh, well. I didn't get time off from my important job.
I killed another car. Maybe I should just get my bike fixed.
Friday, November 30, 2007
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Going Home in Two Directions
I'm in a place where I can write about my life again. I've been on a sort of retreat. A very mundane sort of retreat, going to stay with my mother for several months. It's no cabin in the woods. But it was what I needed to do, and now I feel I can get on with life.
Yuletide is almost upon us, my favorite time of year. This year, I will be making a formal oath. As a Heathen, I do not take oathtaking at all lightly. I don't do it very often for this reason. However, I feel the need to make an offering to Frigga, and I feel an oath to her is in order. I'm still wording exactly what that oath will be, but it will involve being better at the biggest thing I've come to understand is important in life--my role as a wife, mother, and frithweaver. As a token of that oath I'm going to commit to doing something I've felt led to do for a long while but have only done patchily, and that is to go covered after the manner of matrons from time immemorial, including in ancient and medieval Heathen times. With my oath-taking I shall begin doing this full time.
The really fun part of this is that it is going to put me out there at work. I really think that with a well-drafted letter I'll not have trouble from this store as I did from the one I started at in Texas. There are a number of Muslim girls who work there in their hijab. The difficult part will be getting this large and obnoxious corporation to recognize that a non-doctrinal religion practiced outside the confines of a formal organization deserves recognition, despite the rather discriminatory (imo) wording of their dress code policy.
Yuletide is almost upon us, my favorite time of year. This year, I will be making a formal oath. As a Heathen, I do not take oathtaking at all lightly. I don't do it very often for this reason. However, I feel the need to make an offering to Frigga, and I feel an oath to her is in order. I'm still wording exactly what that oath will be, but it will involve being better at the biggest thing I've come to understand is important in life--my role as a wife, mother, and frithweaver. As a token of that oath I'm going to commit to doing something I've felt led to do for a long while but have only done patchily, and that is to go covered after the manner of matrons from time immemorial, including in ancient and medieval Heathen times. With my oath-taking I shall begin doing this full time.
The really fun part of this is that it is going to put me out there at work. I really think that with a well-drafted letter I'll not have trouble from this store as I did from the one I started at in Texas. There are a number of Muslim girls who work there in their hijab. The difficult part will be getting this large and obnoxious corporation to recognize that a non-doctrinal religion practiced outside the confines of a formal organization deserves recognition, despite the rather discriminatory (imo) wording of their dress code policy.
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