The Ridge Beyond

Katelyn - late 20s - infp - 2w1 - she/her Stumbling aescetic, intellectual contemplative, and ordinary mystic in the making. I reblog about the intersection of religion and social justice, memes, and the odd obsession. LGBTQ+ folks and people of all faith backgrounds welcome!

[powerburial]

what's the matter honey? you've hardly touched your fleeting experience of time on earth

[frodo-of-the-nine-fingers]

you want to try pilates? the thing that killed jesus christ superstar??

[hungwy]

Another reason why trains would be good is that most people are not good at driving

[orthodoxadventure]

[dragon-in-a-fez]

does the body ALWAYS have to keep the score? maybe we could just have a friendly game this time. maybe we can just have fun without putting numbers on it

[asteroidtroglodyte]

It’s dangerous to go alone; take this:

[leebrontide]

Younger people, one thing I want you to understand about Millenials is that, overall, our parents taught their daughters to aim for careers and employment, but they didn't teach their sons to keep house. This causes a whole lot of Situations.

[notaplaceofhonour]

Ryan Gosling’s career has just been one long quest to climb the Warner Bros water tower

[notaplaceofhonour]

that man has been trying to climb this tower since he was 16. he has asked multiple times, and every time they said no, but now he’s famous enough & variety was able to convince them to do a shoot on the tower. it all led here. it was all for this.

[notaplaceofhonour]

I’m obsessed with the implication that this was a coming-of-age ritual where a boy becomes a man, like a bar mitzvah

[queerprayers]

the protest sign says "the closet is an awful place to die" (or, in which I ponder creationism) | johanna e. hall | published in fruitslice: a queer quarterly issue 6: queer ecology | art by apb photography | text below

The Protest Sign Says "The Closet is an Awful Place to Die" or, In Which I Ponder Creationism

In the Beginning—after the angels and animals had settled into their hierarchies, after the wild and waste had become something that could hold a garden, after Day and Night were gently pulled apart, Earth and Sea shepherded into place— Male and Female He created them.

A little while later, the Smithsonian shows me a fossil long abandoned by its ocean, the shadow of an animal that evolved before eyes did, still learning how to be looked at. We crawl out of shells carefully furnished by our ancestors and leave tentative footprints in the sand, hoping the museum plaques will be kind to us. Mine will begin:

The woods I grew up in hold sunsets well, Day and Night admitting their overlap, the stories we tell a map but never the land— and how beautiful the land is, the beaches and horizons, the way we carve out a life, neither beast nor angel, cursed to labor and blessed to cultivate.

Evolution continues creation the way I loved before I could speak love into being, the way I forget my friends' old names but never the first girl I held hands with, the way my lover is in the story the way I tell it, and the God they say created Male and Female— who hovers over the face of waters where some are just now learning to swim— hands us the plow.

[theinwardlight]

Lyrics to an old Shaker song, taking off from Matthew 5:6. 

[machine-saint]

in an astounding coincidence, the right level of technology happens to be the exact one I was surrounded with growing up

[bobdylanyaoi]

“Subverting” Catholic art? Oh, okay. I see, you think this has nothing to do with you. You log onto the internet and you post about how “Wound of Christ” from Psalter and Prayer Book of Bonne de Luxembourg, attributed to Jean le Noir, c.1349, for instance, looks like a vulva because you're trying to tell the world that you enjoy Catholic art and imagery in an alternative, queer, risqué way that challenges Christian beliefs. But what you don't know is that that stigma isn’t just a vulva. It's not just a mandorla. It's not just yonic. It's actually intentionally erotic. And you're also blithely unaware of the fact that around 1297, Saint Angela of Foligno experienced a vision of Christ himself, who called her to put her mouth to the wound in his side and lick the freshly flowing blood. And then I think it was Saint Catherine of Siena who drank blood and a clear liquid from the wound before receiving a ring made from Christ’s foreskin? And then graphically erotic encounters with the side wound of Christ quickly showed up in the writings of eight different mystics. And then the yonic interpretation of the stigmata filtered down through the illuminated manuscripts and then trickled on down into some pseudo-intellectual corner of the internet…where you, no doubt, fished it out of some Pinterest board. However, that interpretation represents hundreds of years and countless visions of religious ecstasy. And it's sort of comical how you think that you've come up with an idea that exempts you from Christian theology when, in fact…you're posting an image that was sexualized for you by the very Medieval saints you think you’re so different than…from “subverted” Catholic art.

[and-her-saints]

this could've been an email a prayer

[ravnervn]

Started reading Moby Dick last night and truly was not prepared for how this book really does just start like "yo, I'm Ishmael, and whenever I feel like I want to kill myself, I go and see if any ships are hiring sailors." Like oh, okay bestie!! That's how we're doing, huh?

[mysticismmess]

I just wonder when fundies and haram police decided that faith was purely about vilifying women. What a small image of God you must have, to reduce the beauty and expansiveness of the Lord to "women shouldn't be perceived in public".

Some of my most spiritual experiences have been in community with my Muslim sisters who put up with so much from both within their community and from outside it. Faith that strong should be celebrated and admired, honestly.

Anyway, if you are a young woman of any religion who is being told you are not good enough, you don't have enough faith, God will not accept you, or anything like that, please listen.

God knows your heart and sees your struggles. God will not abandon you because some man said so. God is faithful and loving and merciful.

Some men don't like that God does not need them to be an intermediary so they try to control women's faith, but you are master over your own faith, your devotion, your deen, your iman.

Remember that your relationship with God is direct and no one can take it away from you.

[clovers-practice]

Forever thinking about how Mary conceived via the holy spirit, which is a historically feminine entity. Lots of untapped potential for Something here. Not sure what yet

[ohholydyke]

Lesbianism strikes again

[twofingerswhiskey]

"oh food now has so much added to it, past food was so pure and untainted" victorians used to cut bread with chalk and aluminum powder. romans put lead in the wine, which was made from dirty feet mushing unwashed grapes covered in horse shit and road dust. i think our species will survive a few additives in food. our food systems have never been cleaner and safer. it has room for improvement, but we're not putting fucking plaster of paris in the milk