With all due respect, Irreverent Rev, Jesus did not express only joy and anticipation at the tomb of his good friend Lazarus. Yes, He called Lazarus back to life. But He wept first. Because He disbelieved? Never that. Because He loved, and therefore felt absence. That, IMHO, gives us permission to g...

I'm trying a new entree from _Great American Vegetarian_: hominy baked in cheese sauce with mild green chilies, cumin and a touch of Nigerian cayenne. On the side, a variant of Ipsy Wipsy Tomatoes from one of the SFWA cookbooks (with tarragon vinegar, Mediterranean-spiced sea salt, and fresh rosemar...

*bows deeply to all that Tracie was and is...and to Fist for this heartfelt tribute*

Yikes. I have been traveling and out of access to the Watch since Dec. 22 and just found this now. Russ and family, I continue to hold you in prayer. I'll leave you with a memorial hymn from Christian antiquity, translated by Helen Waddell and set to music by Herbert Howells. www.youtube.com/watch?v...

My area of CT got 8 inches of snow yesterday. The coast got 10-15, leaving less for inland locations; usually the gradient is the other way round (inland is north). I talked to my dad in the mountains of Southwest VA tonight. The snow there was more like 18 inches, and his area has no power or water...

Influenza...boo, hiss. Lucidity..yay! Die, flu viruses! Pump, alveoli!

Fire Daughter wrote:

They also tried to talk them into going back to Houston, but Mom refused. And I don't think I need to tell anyone here why.

If the medics don't understand Tan-Haruchail, the Watch will just have to send them an Old Hemophylactic dictionary.

On the analogy of habitats I usually imagine Haruchai as dark/reddish high-altitude Asians--looking rather like Tibetans or other Himalayan peoples, though with curlier hair. However, the most Haruchai-looking young man I ever saw in person was from Malaysia: compact build for height, teak-toned ski...

For Tracie and all the family: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KsfwvpcQhY "Pressed but not crushed, persecuted not abandoned, I'm blessed beyond the curse for His promise will endure that His joy is gonna be my strength..." Though the Forswornness last longer than the Vow and the Sunbane send Ear...

Furls Fire wrote: Hi all, I can't stay long, I just wanted to come on and say how much I love everyone here, and to thank you all for the prayers you have said for me. You all mean the world to me. My dear friends. Yikes...ain't God good! Hello again!! Dame Julian wrote: In this vision he showed me ...

Tracie, thank you SO much for giving me reasons for continued faith in our fallen human species...I am honored to know you and pray you continue to walk toward the Light always, whether in or beyond this body... "All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.&q...

Jacob Raver, yes, it happened in the First Chronicles. The actual event occurred in the interim between The Illearth War and The Power that Preserves , although causally it's an inevitable done deal after Tull's Tale is told in the former book. (Mhoram dreams of Bloodguard fighting for the Despiser ...

The Fionavar Tapestry (Guy Gavriel Kay) teems with such characters:

Kevin Laine (though from his own perspective, his fate was eucatastrophic, not tragic)
Prince Diarmuid
Finn
Darien

I've always believed that TC's initial impotence in the first series was emotionally determined. He hadn't been sick with leprosy long enough to sustain multisystem damage, I don't think; he was treated quite quickly after the infection took hold. I think he internalized Joan's rejection much too co...

Bail and Cannor (or is it Cail and Bannor?): Reluctant Celibacy Disorder ROFLMVO (in a decidedly unHaruchai manner)! (Someone help me out, there has to be one for Korik, and Prometheus syndrome is not in DSM-IV.) TC in the silence: catalepsy, flattened affect, akinetic mutism, verbigeration Joan Co...

I remember reading a fantasy short story in the mid- to late 1980s called "Pink Wonder." I don't recall the author or the periodical where it appeared; the story follows a young turnip (the main character) from a truck garden in NJ to a yuppie's wok in NYC. Thus summarized, it sounds hokey...

My Gallant Spouse and I say "Stone and Sea forfend!" about anything and everything we don't want to see happen. In response to anything that must be accepted but isn't pleasant (missed buses, early morning scheduled activities, etc.) I tend to say TFH (acronym for Tan -*bleep*ing- Haruchai...

Yikes, how can I have missed THIS thread?! I have been out of circulation. (Larval stage in medical writing isn't quite as all-consuming as larval stage in programming, but at least three-fifths as much...) danlo, don't go too far with life imitating art. We need the words that your fingers, all ten...

Thanks, both!

From "Gilden-Fire": [Korik] could not forget any detail of the last night he had spent with his wife, whose bones were already ancient in the frozen fastness of her grave. The Vow sustained him, but it was not warm. From Lord Foul's Bane : Without warning, a memory of his wife flared in [C...