Reverend Mother

Some discussion of late on other RevGal blogs about PKs... Kathryn started the latest discussion here... Like many female pastors, my daughters occasionally refer to me as "Reverend Mother" and having read Dune, it always makes me chuckle...

For the un-read, here's why... The Princess Irulan writes (via epigraph) in the original novel Dune:

Thus spoke St. Alia-of-the-Knife: "The Reverend Mother must combine the seductive wiles of a courtesan with the untouchable majesty of a virgin goddess, holding these attributes in tension so long as the powers of her youth endure. For when youth and beauty have gone, she will find that the place-between, once occupied by tension, has become a wellspring of cunning and resourcefulness."
— from "Muad'Dib, Family Commentaries" by the Princess Irulan

SO there you are...

Deb
Slightly less serious than your average pastor...
And deep in the "wellspring"