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Daily Archives: June 25, 2008
The Office as a Burial Ground: Undated Image of a Writer
In an oral culture you are with others in groups, and you hear living voices, and you are frequently out of doors and engaged with the world. In a literate culture you value withdrawal from groups and withdrawal from voices, and are indoors a … Continue reading
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Tagged alienation, art, bee, Bible, burial shawl, buriel shawls, chairs, earth, flower, garden, garden of Eden, globe, image, image of an office, indoors, isolation, journaling, literacy, literate culture, literature, loneliness, mausoleum, nature, office, oral culture, papers, picture, picture of a writer, picture of a writer in an office, poetry, psychology, tables, the living flower, the warm buzzing garden, voice, voices, wallpaper, walls, writer, writing
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Earthquake in Reagan Country: The Orange County Register Endorses Gay Marriage
Calling the California high court’s decision justified, the Orange County Register, probably the state’s largest conservative newspaper, in its lead editorial on Sunday (June 22,2008), succinctly and articulately endorsed gay marriage. Money quote: Our preference would be for the government not to be … Continue reading
Calling Gloria Steinem and Dr. Freud: Hans Baldung’s Witches
The German artist, Han Baldung, active throughout the early 1500s, was a supporter of Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation, and seems to have had a bit of an obsession with portraying witches in different media, from woodcuts to drawings. In this image, Baldung imagines four … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, art, bird, bird's nest, birds, castration, Christianity, witches, woman, women, woodcut, woodcuts
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