Words dissemble
words be quick
words resemble
walking sticks
plant them
they will grow
watch them waver so
Jim Morrison, American Prayer
It has been suggested in a forum I contribute too that words only have the power that we give them. This is an idea that I would like to explore on several levels. I’m not proposing a certitude either way, I’m [...]
This is a very serious matter… that the way that human beings think, certainly the way that I think, is in terms of stories… Now what is a story? A story, if it so please you, is a metaphor… If you look at these two plants, you will see that they are essentially metaphors, one [...]
A blogger who’s posts I admire wrote what he called “sketch for a short story” a while back. In this story, a credible construction from an indo-european perspective of the sort of things that may have been practiced and believed by the original druids, although in and of itself wholely a work of fiction, the [...]
The following is a tale I found on a website that doesn’t exist any more… I do not know its provenance (and would be grateful if anyone knows it), but I thought it worth the telling here
Belyn ap Madoc, a prince of Merioneth, had been reading the Triads, and afterwards pondered deeply upon [...]