Meabh23
February 17th, 2006, 05:34 PM
A Coversation with Eris:
It was late in the evening and raining. After a long day, I had no intention but to sit and relax, enjoying the muffled sounds of the people in neighboring apartments mixing with the traffic from the open window. I lit some candles and poured myself one of the Red Hooks a friend had left in the fridge several evenings before. When I sat down on the couch, Eris was there sipping from one of the bottles.
I smiled. She giggled.
"I like the couch," She said.
"I hope so. You have always sit there when you visit," I replied, sitting down across from her on a plastic lawnchair that followed me home from a bar one night.
She had that expecting look on Her face. I knew this was the cue to start the Q&A.
"Lady, why do some of your followers claim not to believe you exist?"
She took a long sip from her beer and said, "Never mind the hamsters running around in your head. Unless they keep you up at all hours. Then again there is a bottle of bourbon over by the sink."
"Honey, you being a Goddess know that bourbon is only for the mornings when I have insomnia, not the nights."
"I know child. I was talking to myself again. To your question I can only say that some of my followers would rather think of me as just an idea, especially when I have bad hair days. Don't take any of them seriously when they do this. Just think of their confusion as your entertainment. A personal gift from me to you."
I smiled at her, knowingly. Then She was gone.
-Mandarava
It was late in the evening and raining. After a long day, I had no intention but to sit and relax, enjoying the muffled sounds of the people in neighboring apartments mixing with the traffic from the open window. I lit some candles and poured myself one of the Red Hooks a friend had left in the fridge several evenings before. When I sat down on the couch, Eris was there sipping from one of the bottles.
I smiled. She giggled.
"I like the couch," She said.
"I hope so. You have always sit there when you visit," I replied, sitting down across from her on a plastic lawnchair that followed me home from a bar one night.
She had that expecting look on Her face. I knew this was the cue to start the Q&A.
"Lady, why do some of your followers claim not to believe you exist?"
She took a long sip from her beer and said, "Never mind the hamsters running around in your head. Unless they keep you up at all hours. Then again there is a bottle of bourbon over by the sink."
"Honey, you being a Goddess know that bourbon is only for the mornings when I have insomnia, not the nights."
"I know child. I was talking to myself again. To your question I can only say that some of my followers would rather think of me as just an idea, especially when I have bad hair days. Don't take any of them seriously when they do this. Just think of their confusion as your entertainment. A personal gift from me to you."
I smiled at her, knowingly. Then She was gone.
-Mandarava