Lughnasa\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Harvest Moon<\/p>\n
The museum (MIA) has us check out when we’re going to be gone over our tour days, so I’ve checked out from mid-October through early December.\u00a0 I’ve not had many tours in August and none in September, just one in October.<\/p>\n
That, plus the relatively light schedule for the Sierra Club–the legislature doesn’t convene until February, so no weekly meetings–has given me plenty of time for the late garden work with time left over rearranging the downstairs and reconfiguring my study.<\/p>\n
Yesterday I finished swapping out books from the bookcase nearest to my desk.\u00a0 The desk and the bookcase form the sides of a U, with the bottom of the U created by the computer workstation.\u00a0 On this bookcase I had collected various art and art history texts as the docent years had gone on, but they were works I did not reference frequently.<\/p>\n
What I need near the desk are books I pull off for work.\u00a0 It’s a working bookcase, not a storage unit.\u00a0 Now I have near me all my Latin dictionaries, commentaries, grammars and readers; various style manuals like The Chicago, a thesaurus and english grammars plus books on writing.\u00a0\u00a0 The works I use most after the latin texts are the oxford dictionary of art, the oxford dictionary of philosophy and the oxford english dictionary.<\/p>\n
On the bottom most shelf I have notebooks from docent training and several comprehensive art history texts.<\/p>\n
I do have a shelf devoted to a long term project which I’ve shorthanded Ge-ology.\u00a0 This project has its own page on this website, but I’ve let it dangle, as I have the ecological history of Lake Superior.\u00a0 Here’s the summary:\u00a0 This work will gather various strands from ecology, environmental movements, pagan and neo-pagan faiths, literature, art and philosophy.\u00a0 It will weave those strands into a faith indigenous to the Midwest (and most other places) and universal to Ge.<\/p>\n
Having at least some key texts near to hand may spur down time work on Ge-ology.\u00a0 Oh, hell, why not go for it?\u00a0 It will produce work.<\/p>\n
There are still a few book stacks on the floor and this and that to find new places for, but I’ll finish that today.\u00a0 Ready for winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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