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1000 books: The Ladies’ Floral Calendar.
We’re heading into a slew of vintage and antique books about householding and cooking, now. The first is The Ladies’ Floral Calendar and Household Receipt […]
Five things, not all birds, birds, birds.
Fall is here, and the leaves are astonishing. I have taken what feel like hundreds of pictures of the fallen leaves from some local tree: […]
1000 books: Buddhist Cosmology. Finally.
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. […]
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, […]