A Week Away
John is taking the week off. But don’t worry you can still get your weekly fix of Folklore goodness.
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Mid-autumn festivals
Autumn is a liminal season, and so we turn to festivals that celebrate limninal spaces: summer and winter, birth and death, wandering and belonging, time past and time future, heaven and hell.
Lost Weekend
I wonder whether, as you went through the rolling year, you paused now and then to ask, “Whatever happened to Unsettling Wonder? Looked like they had some pretty cool stuff planned, and then suddenly there…Continue Reading
A Legend Passes
Pete Seeger died today at the age of 93. If ever anyone needed no introduction, well, it sure was Pete Seeger. And other, far more capable folks will write celebrating his nigh-on-a-century of staggering contributions…Continue Reading
Unsettling Wonder tweets
There are now several ways to receive news regarding Unsettling Wonder, depending how you like your information packaged. You can now ‘like’ us on Facebook or follow us on Google+, or if you’d rather, there’s a…Continue Reading
A Better Ordering: Problems in Artificial Pantheons
The story is told of when the learned medieval king Alfonso X of Castile was given a lesson in Ptolemaic cosmology, he responded by saying, “had I been present at the creation, I would have…Continue Reading
