when I grow up…

June 23, 2008 by Katrina Fernandez

… I want to be a hermit and live in a cave. I’d spit at people and never bathe.

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Nadja

Mom(distractedly): That’s nice, dear.
Dan Hunter

Thats AWESOME!
Thom, SFO

I thought that you already did that….
LarryD

My wife thinks that what I’m doing when I’m in my “man cave”
Diesel

Start small. Maybe with the spitting.
Athanasius contra mundum

And wear camel hair too?
Elephantschild

There once was a girl named “CC.”She wanted a nun just to be.She’d live in a caveand never would bathe,And spit when the folk came to see.
a thorn in the pew

So smelly, would you still have a penchant to veil? You may get bugs trapped up there, underneath. I’m just saying…Dang, I’m all itchy now and I’m clean…
ignorant redneck

You been reading the Desert Fathers lately?
jill

You could go one better and be a holy fool a la St Basil the Blessed of Moscow. Among other weird things he did, he often went around unkempt and naked, and often ate a large sausage on the steps of churches on Good Friday, to show the sinfulness and hypocrisy of the “good people” of Moscow.