An Intellectual Magpie

Winter                                                    Settling Moon

As my books see daylight, they reveal my interests. So many interests over so long a time. Writing, art, Latin and the classics are at the core for me and still are, but history, religion, depth psychology, poetry, Asia, China and Japan in particular, the natural world, the West, environmental issues, Modernism, the Enlightenment, Romanticism and politics, are there, too.

Libraries are a Rorschach for at least the intellectual journey of their owners. And in this case it is a psychometric self-administered and evaluated as each book heads toward the shelf.

Maybe I’m an intellectual magpie collecting interesting bits of knowledge and threads of thought, then putting them in my nest all higgelty-piggelty. There is certainly that element to me.

Anyhow the nest on Shadow Mountain is still under construction.


One Response to An Intellectual Magpie

  1. Avatar Scott Simpson
    Scott Simpson says:

    Charlie, I’m glad there is a blog to turn to when I need a CBE recharge. This line, “Libraries are a Rorschach for at least the intellectual journey of their owners.”, grabbed me today. Great expression. Maybe not just intellectual but emotional journey also in some cases. Thanks for writing. I’m enjoying the reading.