Buddhist Cosmology: Philosophy and Origins, from Akira Sadakata (1997). This did take a while: a detailed description of Mahāyāna and pre-Mahāyāna cosmology, with many diagrams. […]
Author: Kij Johnson
1000 books: Pictorial Key to the Tarot.
Still not done with Buddhist Cosmology, but meanwhile we have The Pictorial Key to the Tarot by Arthur Waite, originally published in 1910. I feel […]
Five things: writing and not writing.
I have a project I need to start, but I have been having a lot of trouble shifting from American Tour to the new thing. […]
Patreon locked post: American Tour Words, 12.
We’re solidly into Chapter Three right now. Beryl, Mole and Rabbit on their way to Chicago! https://www.patreon.com/posts/43411967
1000 books: Robert Louis Stevenson.
Complete Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson, collected in 1969 by Charles Nieder. Not actually Buddhist Cosmology, which I am still in the middle of, […]
1000 books: Sex Tips for Girls.
Sex Tips for Girls, Cynthia Heimel, from the dizzying past of 1983. Not actually a book about sex tips. Well, okay, maybe 25% a book […]
Is it a holiday if it looks like every other day?
(The dead finch, or sparrow? in the photograph was a strange discovery a few weeks back. I was walking across a field on West Campus, […]
Patreon locked post: American Tour words, 11.
This one is shortish but sweet. Thanks for reading! A scene a week is maddening, because that means it takes more than a month for […]
1000 books: Lutheran Handbook.
The Lutheran Handbook, from Augsburg Fortress, 2005. I was raised Lutheran, next to a Lutheran Church, with a Lutheran minister for a father. I can […]
1000 books: African American Tales and Sister Bernadette.
African American Folktales: Stories from Black Traditions in the New World by Roger D. Abrahams, from the Pantheon Fairy Tale & Folklore Library, from 1985. […]