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Badger quotes:

"You buy your button, you try to cram yourself into an event that's too crowded, you wander back onto the street. That's First Night."

(In reaction to a disappointing attempt to make it in to see the All Stylz Crew at the Hynes Convention Center last night.)

The fireworks were gorgeous, though, and the Chu Ling dance troupe was endearing. A bit like dance recitals I remembered from my childhood, only with chinese music and more interesting costumes.

.....

"Evil is a construct created by those in power, who want to preserve power."

We were talking about the myth of the Garden of Eden. It all started when he lifted the blinds on this New Year's Day, saying "Hello, world, bring us your gifts."

It made me think about an innocence, a point of view that can become progressively harder to hold onto in this world. That the world is a kind of Garden of Eden full of trees and bushes, full of gifts ready to be plucked.

And it made me think about the fall, and about the fig leaf, and about the Figs and Leaves soap I have in the bathroom. Yes, my mind kind of works like that.

So I told him about my interpretation of the story of the Garden of Eden, which isn't really mine but that of many feminist/goddess worshipers, that we had to eat the fruit. That the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was really ours to pluck from. It was one of the gifts that belonged to us, in spite of the jealous Yahweh who guarded it. And the serpent, ancient symbol of Goddess wisdom, who reminded Eve of her right. And the apple, sacred to the Goddess with the five-pointed star in the middle (cut it like the earth's equator and you will see it).

Which brought Badger's mind to a whole new interpretation of the story, which brought us to talk about the definition of evil as a construct of those in power.

For instance, murder is evil, according to those in power. But killing murderers isn't evil, nor is wiping out the populations of other countries. True in the rhetoric of years past and true in the rhetoric of our current administration.

I see evil and good as being bound up together most of the time, and intertwined with other colors of the rainbow. And the potential for evil living in all of us.

But the way his mind works, the leaps of intuition, remind me of why I love him.

Hello, world. Come, and give us your gifts.