These are my private opinions and do not necessarily reflect that of the Unitarian Universalist Association (the UUA). I have been active in my local UU congregation, Shawnee Mission Unitarian Universalist Church. Unitarian Universalism is more a religious outlook than a set of beliefs. There’s lots of history about the formation of the UUA on [...]
I first became aware of her through her writings on tarot, Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom, which I highly recommend to anyone interested in a psychological interpretation of tarot. Her Shining Woman Tarot is a deck of her own design, implementing her own insights into tarot. I’m not fond of her artwork, but I like the [...]
I’ve enjoyed Le Guin’s writing since I first encountered The Dispossessed back in the early 1970s. I can’t think of a bad book she’s written. Recently, I’ve noticed that I re-read Always Coming Home the most. It’s not really a novel—it’s more a novella length fiction piece interspersed with anthropological and mythological details about the [...]
My favorite novel for the past couple of years has been Little, Big, by John Crowley. Little, Big is a big, quirky novel that took me three tries over about ten years to actually get into. Since then, I have re-read it several times, including once out loud to my then spouse. That was fun. [...]
