Two fairy tale encounters
Cars Of: photographs by Gwenn Carter
“Gwenn Carter, vagabond high priestess of the road, captures street-side rides from the West coast to the East and back again in this automotive photo compendium of the good vans, trucks, and low-rider, classic, and debonair cars of Carter’s occasional neighborhoods.”
Awakening
A magical event is the emergence of a hibernating beast from its den within the earth.
Imbolc's wintry passage
Imbolc or Candlemas, Brigid’s Day or Groundhog Day — whatever it might be called — today the calendar shifts from bleak January to bleak February.
Killing Machines
A postcard mailed to me by a friend initiates a journey into machines, killing, and fascists.
Queerly Told Tales
Fractured fairytales and other amusingly, shockingly distorted retellings. Just the right amount of cheekiness, creepiness, and clever insight about oral tradition.
The Triumph of Irrational Perseverance
An aspiring novelist must be a stubborn, irrational, plodding fool.
A successful novelist is a lucky, stubborn, irrational, plodding fool.
Invisible Properties
Arthur Danto helps me re-appreciate, if not re-capture, some of the nativity’s numinous joy.
The Shell Game
There is a Life-threatening problem called Time.
Holiday Greetings! (of the pagan sort)
My good friend Susan Meier creates beautiful, one-of-a kind cards for the holidays.
To Do List for Nirvana
For today, overcome the following delusions:
Distraction is the Devil
"In Bosch's Wayfarer ... a traveler is distracted by a small growling dog while walking the allegorical path of life…."
Death Wish
"One of the stars came unstuck from the firmament and darted in a white streak down the sky.”
Research Rapture
“The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one…"
How to Summon an Angel
“A blazing star will descend … “
Troy's Fallen Star
During the remote Bronze Age some 3500 years ago, a great and terrible war raged over the ownership of a trophy wife.
Oral Traditions in a Virtual-Reality World
We retell the best stories, the ones that resonate, that teach how to be human.
"... a thing in a forest"
“There were once two little girls who saw, or believed they saw, a thing in a forest.” Thus begins A.S. Byatt’s fairy tale about war.
Demon Spies Come in from the Cold
King Solomon reveals secrets of Heavenly Espionage in his Testament.
Joy Conjoined to Stillness
Here lies Nzuzu, a fossilized water spirit, her petrified essence discovered inside green serpentine stone.