Emerging for a moment from my online hiatus.

A silly story from Maryland Renaissance Faire this past season...

Thanks to the extraordinary kindness and generosity of acroyear70 and faireraven, I had the incredible privilege and joy of being able to be second fiddle for their act, across multiple weekends this past autumn ( A Magnificent Season). And it was right ( Read more... )

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Ward duty is stressful, exhausting, and depressing. National politics beyond them are worse. I don't want to write about either.

Instead, in this bitter time, two happier tales today, both from a weekend in Calontir. With some pictures courtesy of my friend Cathus the Curious of Calontir: Enjoy.


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I finally got back to Baltimore late last night (after multiple weather delays and all kinds of other air travel problems); finally back to a DSL connection; finally able to load photographs. And so, finally able to write this. :-)


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Journeys end in lovers meeting,
Every wise man's son doth know.


- Twelfth Night (II, iii, 44-45)

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First, yesterday's celebrational Tolkien entry, now with pictures! :-)

And for today, inspired by happy news of milestones from friends this past weekend and these past few weeks, a tale on similar vein, a long time in coming. The story of two good friends and what I did with the proverbial very first day of the rest of my life...

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Running out of time in which to tell stories, a second story for today, of dreams embraced and love celebrated: an entry, introducing one of my favorite artists, the troubadour Owain Phyfe...


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For my second entry today, on the 32nd anniversary of the end of this story, a story from England in the early part of the 20th Century, a tale a few of you already know. A story of love that perhaps, in it's own way, has touched almost literally every single one of us amongst this LiveJournal fellowship. Enjoy.

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Recently, so many of us have been filled with rage by the attitudes and actions of arrogant, selfish, or outright monsterously f**king evil bastards. For this frustrating time then, a story of the opposite, written earlier this year and published today: the inspirational story of a modern day knight and his quest for the women he loved. Read on ( Read more... )

An entry most of you have never seen, from 2002, from earliest days of my Open Diary almost three years ago. Revised and posted here to LiveJournal for the first time, appropriate -- most appropriate, I think -- for this day of days. Enjoy. :-)


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