Catching up

[Murfreesboro]

I expect she was just processing what you'd shown her. She may also be visually sensitive. My daughter is like that. When she was three, and the boys were older, we showed the kids some 1960s Easter movies about Jesus, which of course included very sanitized versions of the crucifixion. She freaked out, which I hadn't expected, since I'm so used to that story, and I'd seen those movies in my childhood (though older than she was). When she was nine, we took her to an Egyptian mummy exhibit at Nashville's Frist art museum. That freaked her out, too, and I asked her why on the ride home. She said it was their gods. I said, "But, Lydia, you knew the ancient Egyptians were polytheists." Turns out what bothered her wasn't polytheism, but the grotesque way the Egyptians imagined human/animal hybrids. Very different from the Greeks.

Circe is a terrific name for a cat. What color is she?

There is a modern novel named Circe which is a retelling and amplified story about the Greek myth. I'll have to look up the author, but I read it at Lydia's recommendation, and it's very good.

Just looked it up. Madeline Miller is the author's name. She made her reputation with her first novel, The Song of Achilles. I've read both of them, but I liked Circe better. Perhaps your wife would like to read them--if she ever has time to read!