habitually probing generalist

The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Mythos Books) Joseph Campbell; Princeton University Press 1972 WorldCat•LibraryThing•Google Books•BookFinder This is the 4th book that I have finished in my Two-Thirds Book Challenge. I started it 6 October 2011 and finished it 15 January 2012. I had not intended to take so long but it is somewhat complex [...]

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My friend Jess talked me into participating in JaPoWriMo, or January Poetry Writing Month. At least that is how I am parsing it out. The idea is simply to write one poem a day. She insisted they could be a short as haiku and that there was no requirement for them to be any good. [...]

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A Short History of Myth (Myths, The) Karen Armstrong; Canongate U.S. 2006 WorldCat•LibraryThing•Google Books•BookFinder Sara also read this book recently.  I think that helped me as we had already discussed it a fair bit while she was reading it, and I had the benefit of her blog post about it. Go read Sara’s review, which [...]

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adamantly heedless was she of warning given on a moon full night venturing forth shall I be faerie-cursed changeling, forest bound tight enraged he was when lily she picked the stars they blazed in all their might passion engulfed the simple maid burning like an ember bright the sun across the sky was splayed “your [...]

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the man sat gazing awed by the vast firmament night after endless night terrified, alone years rolled by friends came friends went his children grew and the world changed around him the stars, they were too many one May evening in the endless procession of months in an Alley the man and a friend sat [...]

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Drinking with the Troops From a local blog, Urbanagora, comes “Drinks with a Soldier.” I just love how some jackass commentor tries to hide behind the shield of anonymity and call the post author a liar. Certainly there are all sorts of views on this war, including those of the troops fighting it. Perhaps if [...]

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Welcome new readers On the 14th of Jan, Blake posted a story at LISNews, The LINews 10 Blogs To Read in 2008. My lowly little blog was included in that list. I have at least 29 new readers in Bloglines, which means, perhaps, 80-120 total new readers since then. Of course, the fact that the [...]

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Truthfully, I will not be addressing that directly as such. Much more oblique will be my comments. But first some initial resources: Martin Luther King Day at Wikipedia High as the Listening Skies, Loud as the Rolling Sea at Ramblings by Laura Crossett. Search Engines Commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Day via Resource Shelf. Five [...]

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This past Wednesday, 26 Sep 2007, was the Fall 2007 Phineas L. Windsor Lecture at GSLIS. Betty Sue Flowers, Director of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum was the lecturer. I must say I was kind of ambivalent about this lecture but I ended up truly enjoying it. I have, I believe, attended all [...]

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[Disclaimer: I do not mean to offend anyone's personal views. My only aim here is to share a love of word play with others who may also appreciate it.] Earlier this week I did the copy cataloging to enter this book into our library. I found the juxtaposition of the the title and the subject [...]

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