The Wilder Gifts of the Spirit

After all he is no more an oddity, a sexual freak, than I am: up here on the Ice each of us is singular, isolate, I as cut off from those like me, from my society and its rules, as he from his. There is no world full of other Gethenians here to explain and support my existence. We are equals at last, equal, alien, alone. He did not laugh, of course. Rather he spoke with a gentleness that I did not know was in him. After a while he too came to speak of isolation, of loneliness.

Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way. My voice shook as I said the lines, for I remembered as I said them that in the letter my brother wrote me before his death he had quoted the same words. From The Left Hand of Darkness Ursula LeGuin

Today, I did some tutoring, and then hit the shops to buy some much needed clothes. I picked up three t-shirts, one with what I thought to be a very arrogant and commanding slogan. I wouldn't say arrogant slogans were me, but I ended up with a Game of Thrones t shirt which reads, 'I will do what queens do, I will rule,' a nice line from the mother of dragons. So really I picked three t shirts, two of which were variations of ones I have wore before, and one I thought totally out of character for me, and ended up with the latter...  interesting... Along side my new hair cut which is ultra short, someone thought I was undergoing re emergence into a brand new version of me...with dragons. If I am honest I identify more with ice than fire, and probably should have gotten a Stark wolf t shirt, or something about Jon Snow. But then you don't get cooler than the Mother of Dragons...    

"Song Of The Sea"  [Gaelic:] Idir ann is idir as Idir thuaidh is idir theas Idir thiar is idir thoir Idir am is idir áit Casann sí dhom Amhrán na farraige Suaimhneach nó ciúin Ag cuardú go damanta Mo ghrá Idir gaoth is idir tonn Idir tuilleadh is idir gann Casann sí dhom Amhrán na Farraige Suaimhneach nó ciúin Ag cuardú go damanta Idir cósta, idir cléibh Idir mé is idir mé féin Tá mé i dtiúin  [English:] Between the here, between the now Between the north, between the south Between the west, between the east Between the time, between the place From the shell A song of the sea Neither quiet nor calm Searching for love again Mo ghrá (My love)  Between the winds, between the waves Between the sands, between the shore From the shell A song of the sea Neither quiet nor calm Searching for love again Between the stones, between the storm Between belief, between the sea Tá mé i dtiúin (I am in tune)