Word Fans, you know how much I want to sort these words! Some of you also know how I need to honor the darkest days with rest (and fish and berries and a cave). I’m going to not push myself to do lie/lay/lie until I have the time to make it a pleasure – resting for the holy days of darkness.
Until seeing,
Sparrow
Fellow scholar Elise Trudel Cedeño and I are exploring a Modern Fantasy course at Signum University. I’m grateful for the shout out on her blog Teaching with Magic!
I will be speaking today at Signum University’s New England Moot, a reflection on twenty years as a religious educator. Specifically, I will address how the finest schools of magic influenced my work.
And this is the non-exhaustive list of books which I’ve been known to recommend on the general topic of ethical development:
The Harry Potter Saga by J. K. Rowling
Riddle Master of Hed (and sequels) by Patricia McKillip
Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin
everything by Ursula K. LeGuin
Snow Treasure by Marie McSwiggan
Number the Stars
Matty Doolin
Jenny Nimmo’s Snow Spider Trilogy.
The Ranger’s Apprentice series by John Flanagan
Tamora Pierce, Song of the Lioness Quartet
Star Wars. Episodes 4, 5, and 6
Howard Pyle:
Robin Hood.
Men of Iron.
Otto of the Silver Hand.
the Sherlock Holmes corpus,
Frankenstein, Lewis Carroll,
Swiss Family Robinson,
Treasure Island!
Red Berries, White Clouds, Blue Sky by Sandra Dallas
Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir by Margarita Engel
A Night Divided by Jennifer Nielsen
In the Sea There Are Crocodiles: Based on the True Story of Enaiatollah Akbari by Fabio Geda.
The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
“ABCs in Zero G” a short story by Elizabeth Moon;
Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold)
Everything by Lois McMaster Bujold
Star Trek.
Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper.
“Omnilingual” by H. Beam Piper.
“Nodsaunce” by H. Beam Piper –
Life As We Knew It & The Dead and the Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer.
everything Joss Whedon ever produced
The Curse of Chalion and especially its sequel, Paladin of Souls, by Lois McMaster Bujold.
The Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold.
The Darwath Series, by Barbara Hambly
The Ladies of Mandrigyn, by Barbara Hambly
“The Cold Equations” by Tom Godwin
“The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” by Ursula K. LeGuin.
The Little Prince
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente
Vivian Apple at the End of the World by Katie Coyle
Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
everything by Agatha Christie, but especially the mysteries solved by that strong female protagonist Miss Jane Marple
Friends, I’m excited to tell you what I’ve been working on for many, many weeks. The ducks, they are finally in a row… and I will open this in my community on Monday!
For those of you Word Fans who also enjoy my poetry blog, I’ve put my Kindle book of Morning Meander poetry on a 99-cent sale this week, so that we can all walk, write, create, meditate, and pray together from September 23d to November 1.
There’s a world outside of words? What could it be??? Don’t worry, Word Fans, my other life is also about words. I’m ticked to have Kindle-published a collection of poetry. Self-publications, of course, are un-curated, except by the bots which assure us that I have not violated copyright or decency laws. And Theodore Sturgeon’s adage remains relevant.
But this blog is un-curated – I’m the content chooser and approver. What an odd little world.
However! I hope you enjoy the poetry, there’s always more where it came from.
Friends, I knew that the wonderful Lexos folks had been adding features and goodness since my Lexos-analyzing heyday in 2015. Today I had cause to give it all a good look-see*. I am head over heels.
Expect some new and very sassy graphs, friends. Very. Sassy. Graphs.
*Look-see, a perfectly cromulent hyphenated word according to OED, and the related non-word “make-see” just took me down a vast and mighty rabbit-hole. You have been warned.
“look-see, n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, March 2019, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/110145. Accessed 6 March 2019.
