Introducing @porridgebrain
@porridgebrain is, well, me! Hello!
Hmm… where to start.
I am, well, not a lot really! At least, in the the academic authoritative sense. I haven’t got a long strong of impressive qualifications to my name or can claim to be particularly well travelled or regale you with stories of the time I was sipping cocoa in Vienna or discussing existential philosophy with a Belgian with a body-odour problem. That’s my brother’s forte.
I am, however, a stay-at-home mum to an incredible, rambunctious, endlessly entertaining almost-toddler who at the time of writing is just about to celebrate his first birthday. I am also a wife to possibly the most patient and tolerant husband in the entire world, and friend and coffee/cake-eating companion to most people with a pushchair in my home town, where I’ve lived all my life. On other days you will also find me as artist (with a confidence deficit), blog writer (with literally tens of avid readers), philosopher (with a tendency to get befuddled), and spiritual explorer (with a penchant for pagan thinking) and soon-to-be student studying for my BSc in Earth Sciences. I survive on remarkably little sleep, a remarkably persistent sense of humour and annoyingly positive nature. And copious amounts of chocolate. I also enjoy steadfastedly refusing to do as others say I ‘should’ (most notably in my parenting choices), and generally pissing off my more conservative associates.
A long and debilitating illness in my teens and early twenties did a good job of putting life on hold for quite some time, and all the things that come with being young and full of potential somehow seemed to pass me by for a while - something I am working hard to rectify now that I am back to full health again (getting married and having a baby within just over a year of each other was a good start… world domination is a bit further down the agenda).
All this down-time did, however, give me a lot of time to think. About religion and dogma, spirituality and ‘truth’, myth and story and meaning-making, and about the differences between all of them. I don’t pretend for a second to have it all figured out, in fact I think I’m sure of less and less as I go, but one thing is absolutely certain:
I think Christianity is pretty lame. And definitely NOT for me.
So here I am opting out. Trying to come up with some better ideas for my life. I look forward to sharing some of them with you.
Now, excuse me while I go extract my son from the catflap. Again.
Jx
Addition by @beyondbelieving:
@porridgebrain now spends most of her blogging life over at www.sleepisfortheweak.org.uk – her rather wonderful, baby and writing related blog which is hitting nationwide acclaim and page 20 of a major national newspaper no less. Also check out www.iseeoddpeople.com.
