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On Tarot, Being a Writer, and Turning Thirty
Posted Feb 16, 2010
Hello again.
I hope whoever reads this is maintaining balance in their lives ... for me, balance has come from remembering that I am a writer, a creative person and a poet, and from utilizing my curiosity in stimulating ways.
For me, balance means risk. It means allowing myself to engage in my own interests and find my colleagues.
A few years ago now, I applied for a masters degree in creative writing. The road since has been generative and rewarding. Here's some of my latest news and I hope to hear yours, too:
Tabitha Dial, a graduate of Creative Writing at Colorado State University in 2009, has written a proposal selected by organizers of "The End?" conference at Indiana University this March. Her presentation incorporates poems written for her thesis and will focus on how Tarot visualization, the writing of poetry and the practice of meditation have become profound means of communicating with and overcoming difficulty in her life. One year ago, she began to suffer chronic eye pain from a condition doctors continue to try to diagnose. Tarot cards inspired the poetry written for her MFA, and Tarot remains a tool that helps her cope with current life struggles.
... I am working on things like establishing a web site to promote this line of thinking. I am working with a local metaphysical shop interested in evolving this presentation into a Tarot poetry workshop, which is a dream come true. And an essay I wrote on my experience writing poetry from Tarot is under consideration for inclusion in a two-volume anthology on Tarot and culture.
And I turn thirty. And I am happy with the way I am spending my time.
Hope you are, as well. Onward and Upward.
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Retweeting a stragety intended to aid protestors in Iran
Posted Jun 21, 2009
From a fellow called "Mach" on http://nerdfighters.ning.com
"Now a few people are tweeting news out of Iran. I'm not going to tell you the names of their twitter accounts as that may* only hurt them. Now one of them has asked their followers to change their location to Iran and set their time to GMT+3:40. And also to RT(retweet) all of their tweets. This is to help throw of the censors trying to track them.
I've started doing this on my account:
https://twitter.com/Mach712
And would like to suggest that you do the same.
With the large number of Nerdfighters we could greatly increase the number of RTs.
*Just trying to stay on the safe side "
-- The link above will lead you to at least one source to follow and RT (retweet).
Do you think this is/can be effective?
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World of Warcraft ROCKS my world
Posted Feb 16, 2008
I began playing World of Warcraft in December for school. I was in a fabulous English education class, where we studied graphic novels (comic books), film and video/computer games and Web 2.0 as learning tools for students. My final was a presentation about my experience with the online role-playing game.
I really love playing and as I have made friends, and stuck to a lot of the slang I picked up during my hootoo/nearly moving to London days, I have thought back to this site and the friendships I have made here.
As always, I hope everyone is doing well.
I also wanted to put out there that I play for the horde on the Muradin server. So if you happen to play on the same server for the horde, let's please add each other as friends. If you haven't begun to play but want to, and need someone to guide you, I would be pleased to do my best.
Just let me know!
.... and school and everything else in life is going beautifully. My first semester wasn't idyllic (who's is?) and this one has shown me I have more friends than I had realized before. I'm also getting pretty busy with poetry -- participating in readings and helping a local organization judge a poetry contest.
Great Zeus, things are groovy. YAY!!!
(Oh and I will be working on a project for a class this semester that ties into World of Warcraft and women/girls who play it. If you are drawn to being interviewed or know a good lead -- article or individual -- I am grateful.)
Cheers.
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Harry Potter never fluffed my cloak, if you know what I mean ...
Posted Jul 23, 2007
I've never really cared for Harry, but I am a huge fan of the books.
I've read up to chapter 32 of the book and I have been loving every page. Rowling really evolves her characters and even the whole world Harry knows and ... it's wonderful and I can't wait to finish it.
She introduces new faces that have been there all along, or ... certainly are meant to ...
I've written more about this in my blog and hope you'll be kind enough to trip over the cyberspace light fantastic and read on: http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Arts-Entertainment/Literature/Books/Blog~338083.aspx
I am of course hoping for a lot of Harry Potter hits. Please Digg if you have a Digg account -- search for "Harry Potter never fluffed my cloak" and you will find it.
Many thanks and I look forward to seeing what all of you think of Harry Potter, the character, this last book, the many relationships Rowling has developed ... thanks again.
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Harry Potter final book discussion
Posted Jul 22, 2007
I want to buzz away about the latest Harry Potter book ...
I am sure there's a thread on Ask the Community ... but I think I also want a thread full of folks I know and folks who may simply come across this thread.
What better place than hootoo (seems every time I come here, it reinforces my bits of Brit vernacular, and that's what the book's doing, too ... perfect)?
Reading status as of this post: I have made it to page 223, the beginning of Chapter Twelve. I have the book released to the U.S., being that I live in Denver and all ...
(this has nothing to do with Potter, but I got back from Yellowstone this week and posted a blog about it, complete with some wildlife photos, here: http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Travel/Blog~337537.aspx)
Hope you all are fabulous!
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