saltonsea

thanks. no i'm not religious at all. i'm what my mother calls a "militant agnostic." you seem like the kind of guy that can appreciate this. most people just look at me really confused. it's not the virgin mary. it's saint mary magdalene. the parton saint of prositutes, wanton women and reformed sinners. in my younger and more impressionable years, i did a lot of fucked up shit. i was on a ton of drugs and in a very abusive relationship. i was hurting all the people i really care about and watching the rest of the people i really cared about die off one by one. i took a look at things and decided that this wasn't where i wanted to be. i sobered up, told the asshole to go to hell, burried my friends and got my life back together. i got her because of what she symbolizes. redemption and turing things around. when i see her she reminds me of where i can from and where i never want to go back to.

that and sg."wanton women" i found it fitting.

just the general feel of your journals. you seem like the type of person that can understand the significance of things and not just look at me and go, "whatever. i don't get it."

i'm glad you knew who it was. most people automaticly assume its mary. and i have to say no in catholic art almost every saint has a trademark of sorts. st. francis always has animals, usually birds. magdalene usually is holding a pitcher of some kind or an egg. which i think has some kind of weird pagan fertility tie in or something. but maybe that's just me.

i love catholic art. there is a store up the street from here that sells these 6ft hand painted statues of the virgin. i want one, but they're $300. i grew up episcolpalian, which is pretty much catholic only a lot more laid back.