Showing posts with label Magic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Magic. Show all posts
Saturday, September 25, 2021

Tea-Time Reading -- and Rereading

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  A recent discovery and an old friend.
Wednesday, September 2, 2020

Gemini X 3 / 5 +9

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Charting the passage of time, activities, and identity: what I do. There's a lot more humor and a lot less ego involved in the parade of...
Tuesday, July 7, 2020

Story-Hoard

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Saturday, September 1, 2018

Rereading, Again:

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Jan Siegel's Prospero's Children is always a lively treat.
Friday, July 6, 2018

Notes: Of Reading and Rereading

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I read the way most folks listen to music, so there's an awful lot of rereading.  Often, a book deserves a second try or even multipl...
Tuesday, December 19, 2017

Waiting for Gadot

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Soldate clay; gray/green glaze: 8/10/15 If you've read my blog, you know I have a soft spot for frogs. (I also appreciate a cert...
Sunday, September 4, 2016

"The Other Worlds": Life's Largest Riddle

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The Other Worlds  is an excellent mythopoeic novel by a dear friend, Christoph Greger.  Christoph's own humble way of introducing t...
Friday, November 28, 2014

Lindholm's "Wizard of the Pigeons"

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Megan Lindholm's 1984 novel Wizard of the Pigeons  is a novel that combines street grit and magical realism, urban fantasy and PT...
Sunday, February 2, 2014

Exploration's Joy

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When I first found and read Charles De Lint's "The Little Country" back in grad school--on the heels of De Lint's "...
Saturday, November 2, 2013

Vercingetorix: Two Views

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Vercingetorix:  sculpture mix; sea-foam glaze, too thinly applied. Or, The Apple Man.
Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Howard Nemerov's "The Makers"

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THE MAKERS Who can remember back to the first poets,  The greatest ones, greater even than Orpheus?  No one has remembered that far ba...
Saturday, June 9, 2012

Sea Troll or Wizard?

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Sunday, May 13, 2012

Happy Mother's Day!

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Dear Mom,       Thanks for the magic.  I try to use it almost every day. Your son,       Matthew David. Frog: sculpture mix; green ...
Thursday, December 22, 2011

Robert Graves: Three Cantrips

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RECOGNITION When on the cliffs we met, by chance, I startled at your quiet voice And watched the swallows round you dance ...

Wizardry for the Tree

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Radagast the Brown: ornament; unglazed clay.