Maebius Musing

Sorry to all of you folks visiting my Blog, which has been rather quiet lately.

I’ve been busy. From vacation trips to various Pennsylvania locations, to intensive World of Warcraft evenings (gamecard runs out in a month, I WILL make it it level 58 before that happens!), to finally getting around to finishing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, to late summer gardening and yard-chores. Not much time to blog. Plenty to muse about I suppose, but best for private journals and this blog took a back-seat.

So, sorry again folks. Things should get a bit more active shortly.

PS: How sad is it when a “children’s book” gets you so involved with the characters that when folks put a pair of socks on a former ’slave’ you just can’t help but get Seriously misty-eyed? But a discussion of that book is for another blog post very soon.

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I’m not sure of the actual terms of this specific concept, not being an erudite literary scholar, (Nettle, any help here? *wink*), but I refer in this post to the concept of making the audience of a book/movie feel the same emotions as the characters are going through.

Case in point, the book Harry potter and the Deathly Hallows. I’ll discuss more details below, but in summary, the “camping scene” I hear many folks thought it was the most boring part of the book. I agree, but boring does not equal bad. You were bored, just like the characters…Brilliant, I say!
(potential minor plot spoiler after the break)…. Continue Reading »

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I was tagged by Nettle with this, so I am honor-bound to reply with my own version and adaptation to the joys and trials meme….
Here are the rules:

1. You have to use your own belief system for the meme. No fair using someone else’s to make a joke or satire. Being humorous about your own religion is encouraged!
2. You have to have at least one joy and one trial. More are encouraged. And no, they don’t have to be equal in length, but please be honest.
3. You have to tag at least one other person. More are appreciated!
4. Please post these rules!

Who to tag.. who to tag.. hmm…. Varulv? (I’d hesitate to say Neil “Sandman” Gaiman, but I don’t think he reads this blog, now would dedicate such answers to the tag-back. *grin*)

With number 3& 4 out of the way, I’m off to handle the other rules…. Continue Reading »

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Inspired by this blog post (from Dancing down the Moon) …specifically the line “It’s grueling work that slowly chips away at your established patterns and illusions, and sometimes it’s painful, because in order to transform something you must first invoke it.“

For as long as I can remember, there has always existed, in my inner-most mind, a strange relationship with the ‘Me’ that walks around at work or cleans up the dishes at home, and the “Me” that envisions himself drumming at bonfires, meditating amongst pristine wooded glens, and otherwise being all Spiritual-and-Stuff. The two just never seem to completely mesh, and any ecstatic experiences seem to rationalize themselves over time into a form of “Glimpsing that other Me” instead of becoming integrated as “this IS me, but better”.
Perhaps this same ability to envision myself as something far different and more grandiose than “reality” is one explanation for my love of roleplaying games, and other flights of fantasy evidenced in my book and movie collections? If puting my mind to a character, I can lose the outside mundane world and step into the role I build around myself.

But the dichotomy is there, and lately, as the season wanes into autumn, my thoughts are drifting once again to this type of reflective musing. Why is there such a breakdown? Is it the same for many people searching for Truth? (I think so, which is why so few people honestly say they found it.) Continue Reading »

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