Balance
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Too busy for this.
The motto of the Lichtenbergians is Cras melior est, which means Tomorrow is better,[1] which is an amusing call to “structured procrastination.” Part of the lesson of our First Precept is to slow down and not produce dreck that needs more time before you share it with an audience. I personally have extended that lesson […]
Light blogging
I have other duties today, like prepping the labyrinth for a wedding this afternoon. I’m performing the ceremony for an old friend and his long-time lady love, and either it’s been raining or we’ve been otherwise occupied. So today, I have to do all the mowing and trimming and fixing up. I actually have a […]
Lichtenbergian Goals, 2017
First, a clarification. These are technically not “Lichtenbergian goals.” In our official ritual/agenda, they are “Proposed Efforts.” A subtle difference, and a valid distinction: if we don’t get around to doing one of them, we haven’t missed a goal. We just didn’t get around to it. With that in mind, here are next year’s Proposed […]
Lichtenbergian goals 2016: a review
For those of you who are just joining us, the Lichtenbergian Society is the group of men who are my soul brothers in creative procrastination. Every year we have an Annual Meeting around the fire in the labyrinth, and part of the ritual is that we propose our Efforts for the coming year, which our […]
Retreat, Day 2
1:32 p.m.: I’ve been working all morning, just futzing around with some sounds for the opening of SUN TRUE FIRE. Think the opening to Das Rheingold, or to Kevin Puts’ Symphony No. 2. Slow, low strings, building to some kind of crescendo… I want to structure the entire work around the idea of a ritual: […]
Pretty!
A new photo of the 3 Old Men labyrinth during our ritual, taken by Roger Easley.
I did good, cont. again
…Part Three in a three-part series… In the normal state of affairs, I would have blogged in great detail about this whole thing, because I’m incredibly wonky about process and I would have loved to share every excruciating detail about How I Did It, but in this case there were hippie-feelings involved. Just posting the […]
“Gestures of approach”: a personal response to a scholarly article
In the most recent edition of Caierdroia: the journal of mazes & labyrinths [v.45, 2016], I was struck by the following quote: As Ullyatt notes in “Gestures of approach”: aspects of liminality and labyrinths, “A threshold constitutes a boundary line or marginal area… from which a movement inward or outward may be inferred, even if […]
Lichtenbergianism: Pitch perfect
Today in our continuing book study of The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published [EGGYBP], we look at the pitch. There are two kind of pitches: 1) the elevator pitch, which is over by the time the elevator gets to the next floor, and 2) your long-form pitch. [p.70] I keep trying to come […]