Another post from the Dept. of Post-Collapse Studies. The icicle doesn’t fall far from the eave.* Click on the photo below to read the beautiful accompanying blog post. * If you missed it last year, please visit my post about my love of building snow houses as a child.
For those interested in myth, metaphor, and meaning, above and below are links to the movie Mythic Journeys I mentioned in my last post. The stop motion “Bone Orchard” part of the film was screened at the event I just attended; to see the rest, I purchased the 2 DVD set. The imagery is beautiful, [...]
Today my daughter and I returned from another realm, where we spent a weekend immersed in myth, story, music, and art. Here are photos taken just before the Good Faeries Ball (I recycled my Halloween costume for this): And just before the Bad Fairies Ball: We also attended panels of writers and artists, including Brian [...]
We carved our pumpkins last night. Below is the pumpkin I carved.
The critters below were watching me warily from the undergrowth as I walked the paths near John’s Pond. One can never be too careful when walking in the woods.
Today on an NPR blog I read about a symposium (at Concordia College in Minnesota) regarding “re-enchantment.” The posting caught my eye because “re-enchantment” is one of my forms of sacred play. From the College’s website: Awakening to Wonder: Re-enchantment in a Post-Secular Age Sept. 14-15 The symposium will explore the role of wonder in [...]
Today I returned from the conference on our energy transition, and this evening I added the book below to the Recommending Reading list on this blog. There is much that I wish to write about, but it will have to wait until I’m settled in and caught up. The Evolutionary Epic: Science’s Story and Humanity’s [...]
Trying out a new theme. Reminds me of 1969. What a year!
