Bibliotheca Alexandrina is proud to announce the publication of their newest volume: Dancing God: Poems of Myths and Magicks, a collection by Diotima.
This collection of poems spans the ages from the timeless sagas of the ancient gods to the modern commuter train - it spans the human heart from the beginnings of love to the depths of grief.
Diotima, author of “Refuge: Tales of Myth and Magick,” and “Banish with Laughter: Essays of Myth and Magick,” opens her notebooks to share her poetic musings, her songs of triumph and despair, her life and loves.
1. An interesting interview with Thista Minai, author of the recent Artemis devotional Dancing in Moonlight; read the interview at Sequential Tart.
2. Ursula K. LeGuin’s latest novel, Lavinia. I am *LOVING* this book; I’ll probably offer an in-depth review when I’m done, but right now I just want to savor it.
3. Tom Stone’s new book (history? mythography? travelogue? I’m not sure exactly how to classify it) Zeus: a journey through Greece in the footsteps of a god.
A few months ago, I posted about a project I was involved with at work, investigating ways to increase my Fortune 500 company’s charitable donations. I am pleased and proud to announce that it has paid off, and my company is now negotiating a contract for disposing all our unsupported computers (and other equipment) with a registered nonprofit group that specializes in refurbishing and reselling at a steep discount to other registered nonprofits (they responsibly recycle anything that can’t be used - no landfills and no third-world dumping).
Yay for the power of commitment!
This week is going to be busy, and next week I’m traveling on business and won’t be able to blog; so I’m not going to post again until May 5th (unless something comes up that just can’t wait… and blogging emergencies are pretty rare 
).
You have to be one with your whosit and do it for the joy of making it way cool. - Christopher Bingham
Interesting quiz, and fairly tough - this is is the one that has been talked about in the news recently as reflecting a general decline in Americans’ civic literacy. I think it’s a pretty good touchstone, although a certain amount of bias is evident in some of the economics questions (that doesn’t necessarily mean I *disagree* with their bias, just noting that it is present).
I scored 80% - how did you do?
I recently came across this poem/benediction by David Miley, another UU Druid blogger; I am reposting it here with permission (thanks, David!). May it move you as much as it has moved me.
There is a Sound
There is a Sound,
That supports the World.
It is tree dance
And brook babbling.
It is summer storm and volcano.
It is in us and apart.
As loud as sleigh bells -
Still, you may not hear it.
Touch tree.
Face fear.
Light fire.
Dance in moonlight.
Make love.
Sing.
The Sound is silent
Until you sing it.
Here’s a very cool video of a Japanese farmer making a new shimenawa (the braided rice-straw rope that marks out the sacred in Shinto tradition) and shide (zigzag paper streamers) at the New Year Continue Reading »
Young dogwood, flowering in the woods. The surrounding trees still mostly winter-brown, some with a bright green halo of new leaves - and the pink and white blossoms shining at eye level like the trumpet of a herald, announcing the arrival of spring. Continue Reading »
I don’t read tarot too often - on the rare occasions I feel a need for divination, I usually use either the Homer oracle or the Limyran (Greek alphabet) oracle, although I sometimes use a tarot reading to sanity-check my results - but I do love to collect decks that I consider either particularly beautiful or striking, or that speak to me somehow. Continue Reading »
