I have a 3-week, multi-city vacation coming up very soon. June 7th I'm heading for Lithuania, and I'll stay there for a week. This trip will be different from similar ones I took over the last few years in that my parents won't be there. They'll be in Paris, where I'll join them a week later, to spend 10 days together ( Read more... )

I've been back from my vacation for 2 weeks, and life is going full steam, as it always does. My visit to Lithuania is now a rapidly receding memory in my mind -- to use starlin_elvea's analogy, I now feel like that Chinese philosopher who didn't know whether he dreamed of a butterfly, or if he was in a butterfly's dream. But I still have a lot of blogging left ( Read more... )

vklase, who is a magazine editor, stopped by at the science fiction fandom camp for a couple of hours. He gave a talk (here's a picture) "On applied demonology, or how to overcome a writer's block". A surprising combination of subjects, you'd say? Those were supposed to be two different lectures, of which he asked us to choose one; since we couldn't ( Read more... )

As I said in my previous post, the camp was near an observatory. Not long ago, a person who used to be the head of the observatory built a so-called Museum of Ethnocosmology here, also referred to by the folks as Flying Saucer because of the resemblance. We toured this museum. Ethnocosmology may be a valid field of study of creation myths from ( Read more... )