Tuesday, January 18, 2005

Is It Proper to Ask the Virgin Mary to Relinquish My Bathrobe?

Sunday I woke up and saw the Virgin Mary in my bathrobe. Well... kind of. When I go to bed, I toss my beloved leopard-print robe over a convenient outcropping of my 4-poster bed. Sunday morning as I was in that not-quite-awake, semi-dark morning twilight, The Robe was sporting the sweetest, meditative face draped burkha-style, and it was enchanting. (Even in my grogginess, I suspected that it might not REALLY be The TRUE Virgin Mary, and I kept trying to figure out what was making that appearance possible. I later found that the roundness of the inside-out cuff just under the collar did the trick.)

Recently I have been fascinated by life-sized dolls (for example http://www.robinfoley.com/CalendarGirl.html ) and as I was hazily enjoying my personal audience with Our Lady, I kept thinking, "Hmmmm, how could I make something that looks like the Virgin Mary in jungle attire? That'd be SO cool!" So now I've ordered about a billion books from the library on doll-making, panty-hose art, soft sculpture, etc. Here's another amazing soft-sculpture site I found while surfing for info: http://lisalichtenfels.net/

I hope my interest in this doesn't expire as quickly as it has in everything else. Even if I don't do something for a profession, I'd like to find some long-term relationship with a pastime that is also a passion. And if I could do it for a profession, so much the better.

In the meantime, should I tell Mary to get down off the bedpost and find her own bathrobe?