For those of you who are not HP fans (shame on you, btw), you may be asking, what in the hell is a Pensieve?
I'm so glad you asked.
In the wonderful wizarding world, a Pensieve is a magical device in which you can place all of your thoughts, swirl them around, and examine and analyze them. When your brain is simply too full -- or if you are in danger of having your mind invaded by some Dark Wizard -- the Pensieve is the place you can store your memories safely. If something is confusing or you just cannot wrap your mind around it, the Pensieve can give you the time, and space, to view things a bit more objectively.
This blog is my Pensieve.
I thank you, all my bloggy friends, for giving me the opportunity to place all my bad feelings as of late here, out of my head, where I can stop the festering. Thank you for refraining from judgement, and for keeping the a**vice to a minimum. I thought of all of you during the Bea Arthur tribute on GMA the other day, and would like to hum (very off-key, mind you) the bars from the Golden Girls theme song.
"Thank you for being a friend."
So interesting that you've written a Potter-themed post. I have one swirling around in my mind too (about Patronus charms).
ReplyDeleteI never thought of my blog as being a pensieve, but the description fits perfectly now that you've mentioned it.
Thank YOU for being a friend.
PS - How excited are you that there are less than 80 days until Half-Blood Prince?
Now I have to go and brainstorm a HP themed post! (Though I DO have a HP themed name for my villan already--hee hee!)
ReplyDeleteBecause I'm a perfectionist, make that villian not villan. :)
ReplyDeleteI love the idea of my blog as a penseive. Very cool!
ReplyDeleteI have been putting off reading HP - but when my friends learned I've read Twilight, they said I no longer had an excuse to not read HP! *Sigh* I supposep they're right. . . and perhaps this post is the great sign telling me to start now :)
ReplyDeleteLove the blog-as-pensieve idea -- so true!
ReplyDeleteHope you're hanging in there.
You are so funny Jo! What a great "definition" of a blog!
ReplyDeleteAnd I am so glad to have you as one of my bloggie friends too! Hope your week is going well...
~n.
HP is awesome :o)
ReplyDeleteThinking of you.
That is such an awesome analogy!!! I love HP, I only wish she would write more!!!
ReplyDeleteWell, I've never read the HP books, but I loved Golden Girls! We are here b/c we are all in this together.
ReplyDeleteOh. A girl after my own heart. I love the GG's and HP. I want a hippogriff. I also want a broom. I'd ride it every day to work. A firebolt, of course. And I'm more like Sophia, than Blanche, or Rose, or Dorothy. "He's a loser!"
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