Savannah Sparrow on a Canadian 10 cent stamp
From: Birds of the World on Postage Stamps, a fabulous collection of miniture avian art.
Michael Herman blogs a great late spring walk around Chicago.
I love this kind of stuff:
hot sand. slowing down. sun warming inner soles. yawning and saying aaahhhh…. as i wander the nearly empty beach, twenty yards and half a world away from the bike path. solitary lifeguard glides by in what looks like walking meditation. my path veers briefly into COLD lake. some shiny little fish are flipping flopping and disappearing into seagulls that fly away heavily without remorse. sun cuts through clouds and yawning tantorum lifts brain as offering. head seems to clear, spine eases and straightens, heart rests down into legs that just keep walking.
He took me right along with him there…
Jeff posts a really very interesting elucidation of Blake’s “infernal method” as a reading practice, or a heuristic at This Public Address 3.0. He was very kindly responding to a question I had left him in his comments about how one applies the “infernal method” to the classics. His answer:
Pushing propositions to their absurd limits, and looking at the benevolent (such as Socrates) as the enemy is what I meant by reading by the infernal method. It means to test, caustically and violently, all those things that even the �angels� tell you to be true.
After all of that, perhaps it’s time to go read The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.
There is a very strange little subclass of bloggers out there (of whom I am a member) who keep blogs about “place.” In my case, it’s over at my other blog Bowen Island Journal. Since we made an appearance at last week’s Carnival of the Vanities a very busy wiki web has sprung up. We have called the wiki “Ecotone” for this reason:
Ecotone: (noun) term from ecology. A place where landscapes meet– like field with forest, or grassland with desert. The ecotone is an area of increased richness and diversity where the two communities comingle. Here too are creatures unique to the ecotone… the so-called ‘edge effect’. Here in the online Ecotone community, we hope to create an edge effect, bringing distinct and different places and communities together to enrich our world. Enjoy your visit.
Go have a peek at the Ecotone wiki.
