Journal
Browse here for posts related to all aspects of my writing life including
events, news, travel, research, mythology, and musings.
The Power of Trees
Trees are powerful sentient beings who help mankind and ask for no reward, which is why this garden of trees is so fitting a memorial. Each tree in the Ringfinnan Garden of Remembrance grows for and bears the name of one firefighter or first responder lost during...
Thoreau’s September Moon
What if one moon has come and gone with its world of poetry, its weird teachings, its oracular suggestions? So divine a creature, freighted with hints for me, and I not use her! One moon gone by unnoticed! Suppose you attend to the hints, to the suggestions, which the...
Egyptian Queen Nefertiti
via Photoshop Animation Reconstructs The Face Of Egyptian Queen Nefertiti This is a fascinating post from Realm of History that offers us the faces of King Akhenaten and Queen Nefertiti via facial reconstruction and photoshop animation. There are actually two videos....
Ah, this gives me chills! Thank you Realm of History for this wonderful Tolkien recording. I wish he'd recorded the entire trilogy aloud; better yet, I wish I could have been beside him, close to the fire, listening to him read it aloud. via Rare Recording Of J.R.R....
A Modern Bard Tells Ancient Tales
I can't wait to experience Damh's (pronounced Dave's) musical retelling of the Mabinogion tales. These eleven tales were composed in the eleventh century or earlier and form the basis of Celtic mythological lore in Britain. The stories were preserved in two Welsh...
Faerie, Fairy, and the Box of Woo
https://www.paganmusic.co.uk/thinking-about-faerie-fairy-and-the-box-of-woo/A message from Damh the Bard, a musician and bard, and wonderful writer. And I must say, I agree with him. via Thinking About – Faerie, Fairy, and the Box of Woo – Damh the Bard
