Milk: the Logos; the heavenly milk from the mystic bride, the Church; milk is also the simple teaching given to the neophyte before initiation and the wine of the sacrament. Milk and honey, food for the newborn, was given to the newly baptized. In Christian iconography the milk pail, muletra, portrays the spiritual nourishment of Christ and the Church.Iron Chef Cora won.- - An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Traditional Symbols, J.C. Cooper
Today's earrings: hands, basketweave spoons
Bedtime reading: The Supper of the Lamb, Robert Farrar Capon
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