My responsibility as host?

The other day I felt obliged, for the first time since I started this blog, to delete a comment and put someone on moderation.

Cyberspace poetry reading – Feb. 2nd

As Imbolc approaches, Deborah Oak is organising the third annual Imbolc poetry reading in honour of Brighid.

Your assistance is requested

Last week I mentioned that I’m working on a project for Neos Alexandria; now that it’s in a shape to be publicly seen, I’d like to ask for your kind assistance.

The project is the compilation of a list of devotional music for the Greco-Egyptian gods. The beta version of the page is here:
http://home.carolina.rr.com/dawnpiper/NA/mus_intro.htm

As you can see from that page, I am looking for music about or referring to the Gods of the Greeks, Romans and/or Egyptians.

more on craft

Alferian draws a nice analogy between craft work and the development of the soul in a recent post:

Poem – “Always a Lady”

[Note: The "gray man" seems to be a part of my subconscious mythology - it's how I've always anthropomorphized death, specifically natural death. This poem is from 1990.]

An interesting book

I recently finished a fascinating and challenging book – “The Year of Living Biblically“, by A. J. Jacobs.

Ethics trumps theology

Dianne Sylvan has posted a beautiful litany of (some of) what’s really important. Go and read.

Blogging may be a little light…

…for the next few days. I’m working on a special project for Neos Alexandria – a web page devoted to music relating to the Hellenic and Egyptian Gods and myths. If you have any suggestions, please let me know either here or through the contact page!

“Once” won’t be enough

We rented the movie “Once” last night – it was wonderful! It’s been a while since I was touched this much by a film (early last year, to be precise – the movie then was “Ushpizin“).

“The world’s worst poet”

Having recently read Terry Pratchett’s “The Wee Free Men” to my daughter, I was startled to come across a book of poetry with the title “The World’s Worst Poet” – and find that the character of William the Gonnagle, bard of the Nac Mac Feegles, was based on a real person.