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3/8/07 New: Where Everybody Knows Your Name presentation at Groveland UU, 3/4/07 New: Prediction Markets Link A real market in predicting political, natural, and financial news. New: The Fall of Modernity Magazine article on our "war" with Islam
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| January 4th, 2007
Reminder: Since Samain is now past, I have begun to post those entries to the various subject headings on the left. Some entries will remain in the blog and get archived there. After a season or so, subject entries get archived. NEW (12/14/06) Museum information on selected museums and cities worldwide. This is in a beginning phase. I plan museum exhibition information for major cities on each continent. Nobody else gathers it; I've started, so why not expand? Come back as I add new cities, museums, and continents. New (12/22/06) Gardening Zone Finder In the North entries you'll now find a National Arbor Foundation link to locate your gardening zone quickly. This is an updated source which included temperature data for the last fifteen years. Your gardening zone may have changed. Click and find out. |
| 10/29/2006 Sunday 10:27AM
OK> I've removed this from the first page and will put something new along the lines of Labyrinthine Mind. f you find diaries and memoirs of interest, the blog below may suit you. If you have a questioning heart, one whose faith comes through a blend of experience and reason, Faith and some of the North may have material of interest. Does the garden, the changing seasons, and an intimate connection to where you live motivate you? The North and Seasons has thoughts for you. The docent program at the Minneapolis Institute of Art accepted me into a two-year training program, now half finished. Art follows that process. The front page, does it make you groan each morning? Politics shows it makes me groan, too. Men have gone through changes in the last 40 years. The Woolly Mammoths respond. Has Cthulhu bothered your dreams? HP Lovecraft a familiar name? Look at Campus Crusade. The rest is quirky. If you want to peek in on my work, check Projects. Who am I? Personal.
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| 10/28/06 Saturday 3:11 PM
Still not decided about frontpage 2003 and now its almost a year later. I did stop revising, but I find a neat new blog I liked, The Labyrinthine Mind. It features several categories as I have, but she posts to them from her front page, which she writes as whatever it is for a while, then she posts to the other categories. I like that because it leaves the new stuff on the front page. If I decide to do it, I may decide to just bite the bullet and get 2003, see if it helps me. If not, I've always got this. |
1/26/06 OK, I'm stopping on the revisions for a while, just to get a breath anyhow. I'm debating whether to buy Frontpage 2003, try to spiff up the website a bit more. Don't know whether it's worth it, since I've only just begun to understand this program. Still, I am operating in the Web building dark ages. Although, I do have a website, a goal I'd had for three or four years before a ruptured achilles and the stasis necessary to heal it brought the website to the front.
If you haven't checked out Travel, or New Harmony, they're both relatively new additions.
Also, I've changed the archives a bit by using features I discovered while frustrating myself a lot over the weekend as I struggled with design and navigation features in Frontpage 2000. The archives now appear as links in the left hand column. I have moved a few links to different web pages.
I am, for now, going to keep all the webpages under one cyber roof because they represent different aspects of my journey into my Self and through it, back out into the world.
The current notion, One Pilgrim's Progress, came from the work with the Woolly Mammoths a couple of years ago. Hunting for an image, or symbol to use, I at first looked at various images used to illustrate John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, but I found them too Christian and too bleak. I don't recall why I looked at New Harmony, but when I found the plan for the labyrinth I've walked there several times it just seemed right.
I've visited New Harmony twice by myself and once with Kate. It works for me for a variety of reasons: Paul Tillich's buried there; Phillip Johnson designed an open-air Episcopal church for the town, Richard Meier designed the visitor center. Plus, there is the wonderful history of the Rappites, German Lutheran communalists who founded New Harmony, and the brief utopia of Richard Owens, the Scottish industrialist who packed up scientists and scholars and bought them New Harmony for a socialist experiment. It failed, but out of the "boatload of knowledge" passengers the United States Geographical Service was formed, right there in New Harmony. Finally, New Harmony is in Indiana, and gives me a different spot from which to view my childhood, lived a couple of hundred miles north and east of there, but still in Indiana.
The labyrinth plan for New Harmony. The image fit. Just fell into place. Clink.
One Pilgrim's Progress made sense, too.
1/22/06 And yet another, A Pilgrim's Progress....
1/18/06 Yet another name change:
In its Warring States Period China resembled Europe. It had a number of small kingdoms with similar origins, none strong enough to unify the rest.
This was a creative moment, as moments of conflict and change often are--perhaps the interesting times of the familiar Chinese curse.
What could be done to promote stability and peace?
Confucius, Lao Tze, and the Legalist scholars each had ideas, systems of thought to calm the conflict and create a more harmonious China. Buddhism, a new and foreign religion, had also begun to make its way to China through the trade routes we know today as the silk road.
Scholars offered evenings in which all of these contending ideas had the floor. They called these evenings, quintang, or pure talk. Their hallmarks were decorum, respect for each others positions, but vigorous, intelligent debate.
