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31st

Another Paper to Write

Category: Mama Kelly's Musings, School & College, Training to be a Teacher | Written by Mama Kelly

Yes I know, it is not Christmas, not even close. But, bear with me I have a point.

As regular readers of this blog know I have been “going back to college” for about two years now. I treat school the way I treat work. I do not see much if any point in being in the broom closet. I gave a brief presentation in my Cultural Anthropology class back during the Summer semester of 2007 and this semester I am writing a compare and contrast essay on “attitudes toward death” using my present faith of Wicca and the Roman Catholicism of my youth as the well I am drawing from.

When I was in college the first time around I wrote a paper entitled “Is Catholicism Harmful?” doing into great detail about the effect of guilt on the human psyche. It was a very angry essay. My only excuse is that I was young and feeling both grateful for finding Wicca and betrayed by the faith I had once loved.

And while my thesis statement (subject to change) is that I personally have much less fear of death as a Wiccan than I ever did as a Catholic, I have no intention of writing an angry essay this time around. In fact I hope to embrace the attitude of Dar Williams in her classic song Christians and Pagans and focus more on how regardless of what religion one practices that it is about “finding faith … the best that (we are) able.”

I am looking forward to writing this essay. If nothing else my essay is likely to be a unique read for the professor and regardless of what grade she gives it in the end, hopefully she’ll be entertained.

Blessings

Mama Kelly