Blessed Be, and welcome. i am the resident woodnymph, and this is my tree - my holt, for those of you who know ElfQuest (in which case i'm less a woodnymph than a wolfrider, but never mind all that..) i already have a couple blogs out there; one of which, The Active Avoidance of Housework you can find behind that link. Myspace has other, older stuff, and beyond that, well - is beyond that.
So why another? Because after two years of dithering, i decided that Active Avoidance would have an actual focus, to wit: a wrap-up of the various arts, craft, performance, and otherwise off the beaten track sorts of things that i do, with an aim to making it entirely publically palatable. Here, however, i want to make note of the esoteric things i encounter, or see, or think. So that while this is also 'public', i won't be linking it to the other, or linking it publically from Facebook.
i make a practice of believing six impossible things before breakfast - well not really. i don't eat breakfast. But i *do* believe in the power of belief systems, and the observer-created universe. i have come to believe that we can shape the reality around us to some extent, and have been actively exploring this notion for several years now. And for every cliff i've stepped off, there has been a cartoon physics cloud rise up under my feet to keep me from falling.
One of my personal tenets is that reality(TM) not only can be shaped, but *is* being, is mutating and shifting; that we are undergoing a transformation where the world will be not as it is now. But the deepest, truest actual discussion or description of what is happening is not on the news (please), in magazines, even online. At least in my experience; i need to remember that what is so for me may be - in fact, almost certainly *is* - very different for others.
No, the place where i find this process most accurately described and reflected is in fiction, speculative or urban fantasy fiction in particular. Yes, there really ARE HooDoo Engineers. Yes, the Reconciliation with the Imajica really IS underway. Yes, there really ARE Animal People, and a Night Market, and Roads that are at an angle to us we can't quite see. And i believe this because all of these are the most accurate descriptions of what i, personally, have experienced that i have encountered. Time to say more is short, but let me say this much: i am currently finding it in the pages of John Crowley's AEgypt Cycle. i hope to elucidate further in posts yet to be written. i hope you'll stick around to read some of them.
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