I tend to work in themes and structures for a while, approaching the same image or idea from several different angles over the course of weeks, months, sometimes years, sometimes decades. You can’t rush into things. Consequently, the different ’scapes overlap quite a bit.
Recent: links to whatever’s been posted of late.
Dreamscapes: flash fictions and semi-fictions.
Landscapes: reflections and responses to the natural world (though not nature writing in the conventional sense.)
Mindscapes: poems and fragments.
Runescapes: meditations on Runes, Tarot, and I Ching. Mostly I Ching, actually. Stay tuned for a dedicated I Ching site.
Tumblr: Pics and comments; lots of poetry reblogged from elsewhere, and a few things reblogged from here, and some tunes, some links…
Posts dated prior to Mar 2010 originally appeared on gnostix1.blogstream.com or related pages, which has since died with an awful sound. Most have had some revision in the course of their migration.
The character of Sadie is an invention of Fairweather Lewis and her cohorts Willard, Auntie, Miss A the Ornery and Sylvia. The characters of Albert Banfill and D. Tybalt Oldman are my own creations.
Unless otherwise noted, all contents © Les Buhite 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012.
Only one small quibble: Sadie is actually a committee phenomenon, with input having come from me, Willard, Auntie, Miss A, and a former blogger from TX called Sylvia. To our vast surprise and consternation, she very shortly took on a life of her own, and we have had to restrain her from starting her own blog. ;)
The things you learn! I’ll make the change. Invite the rest o’ the gang over for some conversation. I’m still deciding if I want to move the adventures of DT and Albert over here .. I haven’t added anything of substance in quite a while.
A little I Ching can be a dangerous thing. Unless you serve it with plum sauce, for a change from the usual soy sauce. I just subscribed. You’re in big trouble now. But I do like this layout. It suits you, somehow. Thank you for linking to my little blog. We’re serving sacramental wine over there today. Everyone is welcome, but you must bring a dish to pass.
I’ll bring the plum wine, and a bit of wild rice.
Thanks for subscribing, and do stop back again!
Love plum wine. Thank you. I’ll add the link at Much Ado the next time I sign in. Looking forward to further adventures … ;)
So sorry. I didn’t realize you were still posting here. Just figured it out today. When I have leisure to concentrate, I’ll come back and read more. Wish you’d told me.
lol– still posting. It’s my secret blog. shhhhhhhhhhhh…………..
(and don’t forget the plum wine)
The new stuff is neither boring nor depressing–it’s very colorful and thoughtful. I especially like that reflection on Candlemas Day–I have Wiccan friends who celebrate it neither as Candlemas nor as Groundhog Day but as Imbolc, as you say, the half-way point between winter solstice and spring equinox and a subtle but hopeful turn on the Wheel of the Year–originally, I think, a Celtic fire festival, fire not as warmth but as illumination in the dark days of winter–And yes, that is when my hillbilly soul first notices how weary I am of cold and dark and yearns toward the first greening, cries with delight when–as we usually do–we have the first warm spell since Indian summer, toward the end of February–and the crocuses peep out from under dead vegetation. May be psychological, may be spiritual–it’s certainly ancestral to us, though, to look for the first signs of spring.
Oops. Got a bit carried away there. (shuffles feet & looks sheepish. ;))
lol– such things happen… odd to think about in August. That ol’ wheel of the year just keeps turning…