Bits and Pieces
I received several packages today.
Together their contents make up a rather interesting collage.
1. A large black and white photo of a naked, dark-haired woman leaning up against a tree with her arms up, encircling a bole, her face turned just slightly toward the camera.
2. Volumes two and three of the collected Sandman series, which I have just started reading.
3. A 2-CD collection of orignal performances from MGM musicals.
4. The newly-released DVD of Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet. (Not my favorite Hamlet, and not Branagh's best work as actor or director, but still a worthy addition to the movie collection.)
I'm in the process of finishing a biography of Catherine the Great (fascinating), and am about halfway through a Charles DeLint fantasy novel called Memory and Dream. I love his work, love the way he makes magic and the otherworld fit so perilously and beautifully into the everyday world. This particular story is about the power of art to draw beings from the otherworld into our world, and it resonates very deeply with me, given my experiences with writing and my daemon.
I went out for Chinese dinner with the daughter tonight, which was fun, then grocery shopping, which was also fun. My weekly bunch of roses (in honor of Freyja) is sitting in a crystal vase on my coffee table next to my Bigby and Snow statue. I'm about to shut off the computer, go upstairs, kiss my daughter good night, and see if I can manage to find my way to a certain gate and look through it again. . . .
Together their contents make up a rather interesting collage.
1. A large black and white photo of a naked, dark-haired woman leaning up against a tree with her arms up, encircling a bole, her face turned just slightly toward the camera.
2. Volumes two and three of the collected Sandman series, which I have just started reading.
3. A 2-CD collection of orignal performances from MGM musicals.
4. The newly-released DVD of Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet. (Not my favorite Hamlet, and not Branagh's best work as actor or director, but still a worthy addition to the movie collection.)
I'm in the process of finishing a biography of Catherine the Great (fascinating), and am about halfway through a Charles DeLint fantasy novel called Memory and Dream. I love his work, love the way he makes magic and the otherworld fit so perilously and beautifully into the everyday world. This particular story is about the power of art to draw beings from the otherworld into our world, and it resonates very deeply with me, given my experiences with writing and my daemon.
I went out for Chinese dinner with the daughter tonight, which was fun, then grocery shopping, which was also fun. My weekly bunch of roses (in honor of Freyja) is sitting in a crystal vase on my coffee table next to my Bigby and Snow statue. I'm about to shut off the computer, go upstairs, kiss my daughter good night, and see if I can manage to find my way to a certain gate and look through it again. . . .