The Croning by Laird Barron

The Croning Laird Barron ebook
ISBN: 9781597802307
Page: 320
Format: pdf
Publisher: Night Shade Books

I love ice cream and especially in cones! What Laird Barron accomplishes, among so many other things in The Croning is a stitching together of tropes that call out from myth and fairy tale, from that odd blip of literary history where H.P. A number of them, as they turn menopausal, have been having croning ceremonies to honor this phase of their lives. Thus, in the opening phrases of The Croning , Barron begins this juxtaposition of the down to earth with what we might describe as out of this world. Every time I stop blaming internetially, the first thing I do is want to start blaming again. It still holds true for me today. The Croning follows Don Miller, a genial yet seemingly addle-minded older gent whose career in geology has trailed off, along with his mental acuity. From Laird Barron, Shirley Jackson Award-winning author of The Imago Sequence and Occultation, comes The Croning, a debut novel of cosmic horror. Crone, Hag, and other such names have been used recently (in the past 4000 years) to put down older women. Before the word crone became a derogatory one, being a crone was actually an honor. This blog is on hiatus, so it's time for a post. I came to appreciate the word “crone” from women who preceded me in the women's spirituality movement. An Ancient Rite de Passage to Honor older women, Croning Ceremonies had become nearly extinct. Oh, Mary Francis, you are too kind. Reclaiming the Image of the Crone (pre-requisite to the croning ritual). Book Discussions at the Library March 2012 · February 23 . Posted by Dawn-Ann on November 7, 2010. Just a misplaced letter or two and the reason for the rite is derailed but so delightfullly! I wrote this three years ago on an old blog. This was a Croning Ceremony, designed to invoke Spiritual reflection, dignity and wisdom.