Here a few videos I to teach my Goddess Parvati a few things about self-expression and handling difficult emotions. It seems the Gods are not too good at that.
Did I tell you I have a whole page dedicated to Fantasia? I am not that much into the contemporary R & B scene, but I came across Fantasia and I was smitten.
It took all the strength I had not to fall apartI've been watching some videos about the colorism woes of both African and Indian women on Youtube, and although I can see how they have been made to feel and in some cases still feel, I have been bemused by some of them because I cannot possibly see how some of them actually believed they were not beautiful just because their relatives told them so, and were hurting because of it.
Although sometimes I get a sense of pain they've been through I can't say I have ever felt their pain until I remembered the case of "my girl Parvati".
One day, the great lord Śiva tossed his arm around the neck of the daughter of the mountain, the Goddess, and spoke in jest to her in order to bring about a particular act of asceticism. Now, Śarva had a pale body, made particularly pale because of the crescent moon upon him, while the Goddess gleamed with skin like the petal of a blue lotus at night. Śarva said, ‘Your slender body, shining darkly upon my white body, looks like a black female serpent coiled around a white sandalwood tree. You look like a dark night touched by the light of the moon, like the night during the dark half of the lunar month; indeed, you offend my sight.’
Charcoal sketch of Gladys
This is my first attempt at a drawing probably since early secondary school. Apparently in proper drawing you are not supposed to be able to erase your mistakes and have to carry on and improvise somehow. I think I got the lips right though. I need get those cheeks right next time. They are very pretty. I should also have got the earrings in. Happy Birthday Hodan. I have something else in the coming in the pipeline.
