I believe that legends and myths are largely made of truth.
—J. R. R. Tolkien
Month: March 2020
Sunday Inspiration: A Candle
Everyone must know that within them burns a candle—and that no one’s candle is identical with another’s, and that there is no human being without a candle…. One needs to ignite one’s candle and make of it a great torch to enlighten the whole world.
—Rav Kook
Sunday Inspiration: The Courage to Continue
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
—Winston Churchill
Cryptids of Ohio, Expertly Illustrated
A new exhibit at the Rutherford B. Hayes presidential library features a slew of legendary creatures that purportedly haunt the Buckeye State. Atlas Obscura has the details, and you need to click through to see the paintings by Dan Chudzinski, historian and special-effects artist, who has rendered a number of these creatures in superb detail.
Celtic Otherworld(s)
Dr. Gwilym Morus-Baird knows a thing or two about conceptions of the Otherworld in Celtic cultures, and he shares it in this video.
I’ve long been fascinated with the idea of a strange, mystical world running parallel to our own. It is the basis of my “Into the Wonder” series and also features in my current work-in-progress, Shadow of the King.
Sunday Inspiration: Learning
Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people learn from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers.
—Socrates
Sunday Inspiration: There Is Someone…
There is someone I love, even though I don’t approve of what he does. There is someone I accept, though some of his thoughts and actions revolt me. There is someone I forgive, though he hurts the people I love the most. That person is me.
—C. S. Lewis
Into the Wonder 