Epics

today Holy crow, does it ever stop? I am so glad to know that we are more than halfway through with classes for this semester, but man, I am beat. I feel like I say this every week. (and its true) I want to get to a place where I am not waiting until after midnight on Sunday each week to get my work done for this class, and others. I don't know.. maybe I added too much on my plate. Or maybe school isn't designed for a single mom with two young children to be taking 18 hours worth of course work. Regardless, here I am and here I will stay. I've went through several tea light candles and lots of coffee this week. I am still being productive, though in the procrastinating variety... No judgments! I made some yummy paleo chili this week. Wanna know what the craziest ingredient was? (Im telling you anyways!) It was PUMPKIN PUREE. Isn't that just absolutely banana pants? I might be a little delirious at the moment, which is also okay. I'm just tired and have to take...

Palace of Illusions: (2) So, I am at the part of the book where Draupadi talks of her husband's extra wives. This is particularly fascinating for me because I never could understand how a woman could adhere to the polygamy of a spouse, where the wife was meant to stay monogamous. That just seems ridiculous a notion, and completely disrespectful.  Draupadi and Husbands https://www.quora.com/If-some-groups-advocate-men-having- multiple-wives-are-there-women-who-have-multiple-husbands What Draupadi explains is her large tantrums in opposition to her husbands taking new wives, though she notes in secrecy that her jealousies were largely farce, because she knew realistically that she couldn't expect her husbands to be celibate in the years that she was required to bed her other husbands. Wow, what a concept!  Bibliography: Palace of Illusions, Chitra Divakaruni

Epified Mahabharata:      Wow! This is so fun and I love how the narrator is depicting this story. I must confess that I, too, enjoy the Mahabharata more than the Ramayana. The very first story that Epified presents is that of Ganga, the river goddess. She marries the king when he asks her but on the stipulation that he must never ask her any questions- he agrees.  She drowns seven sons in the river without him questioning her. I am sure that he has simply been filling with rage this entire time... how horrific! I couldn't agree to marry someone without questioning them. I couldn't watch and stay silent as someone drowned my child. How absolutely mortifying this is!  Children's Book of Indian Epic stories I am excited to get this book in the mail here in a few days. (: I think that it will be interesting trying to share these stories with my little girls but will first peruse them to see that it would be appropriate. (Not all children's books se...