2008

Friday Zen Moment

April 4, 2008

Found on MetaFilter this morning: Eclectic 2.0 [requires QuickTime]. I have a thing for time-lapse photography and reverse video (see also Sensei Studios, their “Balancing Point” video is amazing), and this piece really took my breath away.

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Secular Ravenism

April 3, 2008

©2008 Lacey Bryant The title this week is taken from Bright River, which I can’t recommend enough. After I mentioned it a few posts back I went back and listened, and the incredible act of imagination that the play represents just blew me away all over again. And then I went to my local caffeination [...]

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Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Raven

March 26, 2008

after Wallace Stevens I When Noah’s ark alit on the mountain, The first thing he sent out Was the raven. II I talked amongst my selves Like a coffee klatsch Of three ravens. III The raven flew down to its dead dinner Chilled by autumn winds. IV The god and goddess Are one. The god [...]

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Myth and Modern Life

March 24, 2008

Disclaimer: Not the official entry for this week (official entries will all be found under the ‘School’ category, for those who are playing along at home). Now, then. (And what an odd turn of phrase that is, by the way…suggesting a conflation of past & present that feels very familiar.) Since I have a dreadfully [...]

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Latest from Twitter

March 19, 2008

Jenny Holzer’s latest twitter: MYTH CAN MAKE REALITY MORE INTELLIGIBLE So true, eh? And Twitter is the perfect platform for her art, in so many ways (follow her now: jennyholzer). At least I’m assuming it’s her; we never do know for sure…

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Being Chosen

March 11, 2008

Raven, trickster, appears behind the oracular candy bar, dark sweet thing, brings fire, light, creation itself a gift to the myth-hungry two-legged who come up out of mud, crying in darkness Stolen from the Sky Chief, this light, by playing the innocent; a pine needle in the right girl becomes a baby boy: the Chief’s [...]

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Residential Recap

March 9, 2008

So, the promised recap of my first week of school. I drove down to Santa Barbara on Saturday, with all of my books, shiny new pencils, the laptop, etc. I almost went and bought Pee Chee folders out of nostalgia, but based on the amount of reading, am glad I went with the 3″ binder [...]

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Home Sweet Dorm

February 23, 2008

More on my first week of grad school later, but here’s a little visual to whet the appetite…

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Reasons to Hope

February 4, 2008

I always want to find something pithy to say about politics, especially in an election season as charged as this one. But as usual, people who are far better writers than I have already beaten me to it. Michael Chabon’s call to hope (and a vote for Obama) says everything I could hope to about [...]

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New Chapter

February 2, 2008

The new year has come and gone, and this blog has been dormant (as usual) for quite a while. The good news is that the situation’s about to change. Partly, I suspect I’ll have a lot to talk about, and partly, it will be because writing on the blog is going to be part of [...]

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