Summer 2009

Tree Today Gone Tomorrow

In traditional societies of Latvia, Lithuania, and northern Germany, the world tree was thought to be a distant oak, birch, or apple tree with iron roots, copper branches, and silver leaves. The spirits of the dead lived in this tree. 

Having a Place in the Shade

Return and Roots

Learning about Twitter...tweets....chirps.

Photo dictionary -visual connections on the web. Learning about twitter...it can connect to 100 trees...birds do nest in trees.

http://thephotographicdictionary.org/home.html

Expanding our Boundaries

Blogging starts with what people read. The big difference with  publishing now is in the process.   Publishing can  no longer be treated as the end of the process. Writing happens toward the beginning of the process and we publish to connect , to comment, to receive comment .  from W. Richardson, Expanding our Boundaries, OTF Conference 

Expand our Boundaries

Blogging is a unique genre of writing - made for critical thinking, writing that hypertext allows for in an environment that we can link ideas. The link is imperative. If we are not connecting ideas with our writing ....W. Richa.2009rdson Feb 27

Tapping into the ground water....roots meshed

Sunday Night in the Forest

The forest is the place where vegetable life thrives and luxuriates, free from any control or cultivation. And since its foliage obscures the light of the sun, it is therefore regarded as opposed to the sun's power and as a symbol of the Earth. Since the female principle is identified with the unconsciousness , it follows that the forest is also a symbol of the unconsciousness. It is for this reason that Jung maintains that the sylvan terrors that figure so prominently in children's tales symbolize the perilous aspects of the unconsciousness...J.E.Cirlot

reaching up