Ya know?  As I was reading my mythology book, I realized that the Greeks made a story for everything.  How certain flowers came into being, why the seasons changed, why the sun rose and set the way it did, everything.  Even hermaphrodites, which I found extremely entertaining.

I think it's fascinating.  If you think about it, without the science of ( Read more... )

"All myths are stories of a special kind.  They are not realistic tales--not stories of people doing ordinary things in an ordinary world.  Instead, they tend to be about extraordinary characters in a world that is not our ordinary waking reality, a world that is sometimes full of magic and sometimes full of gods and goddesses, where the earth can ( Read more... )

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I just had an idea about how I can decorate my bookcase.

I think I'm going to get a colored paint (not sure what color--thought silver at first but we'll see) and paint polka dots on it.

Hmmm...if I get any ideas later on, I'll try to remember to post them.

I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but I have had the idea of starting a book for years and years.  Not I book that I believe will ever really get published, but if I finish it and like it enough, I may try.

Anyway, the point is, that I don't write often and when I do, I always have to reformulate my ideas due to the long periods of creative ( Read more... )

Turns out I have better aim than I realized.

For the past approximately 2 years, Eric and I have been philosophizing about the reasons why I have suddenly become a hermit.


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Do you ever feel like you've got so many things to say, but when you're sitting down ready to write it all down, you realize that no words come forth?

That's how I feel right now. I've got so many things I could talk about, think about, write about, but none of them are forming. It's during times like this that I turn to poetry. Poetry tends to ( Read more... )

No; my subject does not mean that I am packed and ready to go somewhere, although that wouldn't be too far from the truth considering Eric and I have yet to unpack from our Thanksgiving "vacation". My subject means that this will be a blog that goes in all kinds of directions.

I'll start with the first that comes to mind: Eric did a 10-point turn ( Read more... )

I am taking my inspiration for this particular blog from Sei Shonagon's form of writing.

A man who, despite all his best efforts, cannot get a job.  Ugh, how irritating.  It is beyond his control that jobs do not come to him.  Discrimination, prejudice, and whatever else take their toll on the decisions that are made for him.
    The teacher who ( Read more... )