What is imagination good for? And why do we need imaginative stories? The real world is full of beauty. Normal lives are full of drama. And beneath it all is Truth; bright, hard, sharp as the point of a spear. So why make stuff up? Why read (or play at) things that aren’t real? Because […]
Introducing The Riot and the Dance Part I: Earth
The Riot and the Dance Part I: Earth is a film described by its creators as, “A boisterous new nature documentary featuring a biologist who was once told he would never succeed if he kept blabbing about all that silly Creator-creature nonsense.” I got to watch an early screening with my family, and we found […]
Ember Rising: Kickstarter (pre-orders) Available Now!
Our own S. D. Smith is running a Kickstarter campaign to finance publication of the third book in his Green Ember series, Ember Rising! I’ve read the manuscript. Ember Rising is everything the next book in this series should be – Fresh and compelling while staying entirely grounded in the characters, places, and themes of […]
Cowardly Clyde
I have often heard that stories affect us more like experience than fact, working their way down into our unconscious beliefs. This held true in my childhood reading, and Bill Peet’s picturebook, Cowardly Clyde, is a great example of how. Allow me first a quick outline of the story, why I still love it, then a few […]
Looking On Purpose
This summer, my wife and I took a once-in-a-lifetime vacation to a place of extraordinary beauty. I’m not a naturally observant person; I easily get adrift inside my own head, and I feared I would return with fuzzy, tunnel-vision memories of our trip. To avoid this, I set myself some guidelines for using my camera, […]
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