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Monthly Archives: June 2017
On Food Insecurity, Systems Mapping, Beren and Lúthien, and Other Obviously Connected Things (An Update)
I have had one of those unusual weeks where my research with the government of Prince Edward Island has taken over. I have been in Lean Six Sigma training, which is a fairly heavy duty process management system. Our team … Continue reading
Posted in Reflections
Tagged A Severe Mercy, Beren and Lúthien, design thinking, food, food insecurity, Lean Six Sigma, Mark Sampson, Marsha Daigle-Williamson, Patrick Rothfuss, policy development, poverty, Prince Edward Island, public policy, research, The Name of the Wind, The Tale of Beren and Lúthien
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Please Vote: “The Outlaw In My Lineage” by Nicolas Dickieson
The other day I took my family for a walk around my land. It is just a handful of acres now, a field farmed for soybean or alfalfa. It once was part of a much larger 100-acre plot that was the … Continue reading
Posted in Reflections
Tagged Canada, farming, Heritage Fair, History, Nicolas, Prince Edward Island
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20 Years to 8 Children in Narnia with Author Jared Lobdell
I encountered Jared Lobdell’s work because he was one of the few critics to make C.S. Lewis’ WWII-era science fiction–what I call the Ransom Cycle–a study of its own. His 2004 book, The Scientifiction Novels of C.S. Lewis: Space and … Continue reading
2017 Mythopoeic Awards Finalists and A Review of “The Chapel of the Thorn” by Charles Williams
The Mythopoeic Award shortlist is out (see here). I’m not often at the same table as the cool kids on the newest and hottest fantasy lit–I’m just now reading Patrick Rothfuss, and wondering what I have done with my life … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged A Grief Observed, Arthuriana, Beowulf, Bodleian Library, Chapel of the Thorn, Charles Williams, fantasy, Gladstone's Library, J.R.R. Tolkien, Margaret Atwood, Marion E. Wade Center, Mythopoeic Award, narrative poetry, Patrick Rothfuss, Poetry, religion, Science Fiction, Shakespeare
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The Deeper Meaning of “The Great Divorce” (Feature Friday)
It’s difficult to know why, but this post has remained among the most popular for the last few months. For the past few years I have been trying to encourage a recovery of The Great Divorce. It is a great work, … Continue reading
Five Words We Should Banish from our Vocabulary, Or Preventing Verbicide with C.S. Lewis
As a voracious reader and great lover of language, C.S. Lewis was concerned about “verbicide,” what he called the “murder of words.” As Lewis describes in Studies in Words (7-8), verbicide happens in a number of ways: Inflation of a Word’s Value: “Inflation is … Continue reading
A Narnian Close Read: Friday Feature
A resource recently came to me from a homeschool mom. I am honestly not very connected to that kind of network, so I was pleased to bump into the “Close Reads Podcast,” hosted at the Circe Institute. Past books featured … Continue reading
