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Book loving Noah

Posted in family on March 30, 2008 | 6 Comments »

My three-year-old grandson reading books at our home.

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Goldwork tree sparrow

Posted in Stitching, goldwork, hand embroidery on March 30, 2008 | 7 Comments »

Having finished editing and commenting on my granddaughter’s third novel manuscript and sent that off to her, I am finally ready to return to stitching. However, my first project is a gift that I can’t show here in progress. Instead, I’ll show you a little goldwork study I did in 2002.
I wanted to use [...]

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Buying gas disinformation

Posted in gas on March 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Oh dear. It seems I have been guilty of spreading one of the urban myths that travel around cyberspace. For the corrected information, go here. Sorry about that.
My thanks to Sue Krekorian in the U.K. for putting me straight.

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Experiencing Oneness

Posted in spirituality on March 22, 2008 | No Comments »

Those of you who have read my Blake essay will appreciate this talk by a neuroanatomist who experienced Oneness as a result of a stroke. She describes what was going on in her mind as the brain hemorrhage occurred and she accessed the right brain. She discovered that she could consciously go to [...]

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Sand mandala

Posted in Blake, Buddhism, art, spirituality on March 21, 2008 | No Comments »

Oh my friends, go here to see photographs of the work in progress of the creation of an incredibly beautiful and complex Tibetan Buddhist sand mandala. One of the things I love about Tibetan Buddhism is the colorfulness–pure, vivid, primary colors in complex designs. There are so many parallels between Blake and Tibetan Buddhism. I [...]

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Blake memorial

Posted in Blake on March 20, 2008 | No Comments »

David Whitmarsh-Knight, a Blake scholar who has written two books on Blake’s epic poems, sent me an e-mail about my Blake essay in which he mentioned a video on YouTube of the 250th Blake anniversary service held last year at his gravesite, which had just been verified. You can see the video.

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Why Blake is Important to Me

Posted in Blake, Personal, essays, family, spirituality on March 17, 2008 | 3 Comments »

At last, I have finished my essay explaining why William Blake is important to me. I wrote it for my grandson after I sent him my college papers on Blake, but it is just as much written for me. I wanted to articulate for myself what Blake means to me but I sure [...]

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