“There was something that He hid from all men when He went up a mountain to pray… There was something that He covered constantly by abrupt silence or impetuous isolation… There was some one thing that was too great for God to show us when He walked upon our earth, and I have sometimes fancied […]

On the campus of Wizard Academy, we travel upward to study and celebrate, downward to find meaning and rest.  According to Carl Jung’s theory of depth psychology7, life is a journey on water.  Water: that transparent portal separating the objective reality of the conscious mind from the subjective reality of the unconscious mind. Above the […]

“It was a bird-chirpy morning in early May. Sunshine elbowed through the stained-glass windows of the Capt. Kendrick Memorial Hot Dog Wildlife Preserve. Sweet smells rose stiffly from the fields outside and unfurled above the cafe like banners. Random notes of cheerfulness sailed through the air like paper airplanes. One landed in the steam pot […]

Take Your Inspiration From Wherever You Find It, No Matter How Ridiculous I have no idea who created the image, but there it was: a boy sitting on a tower at night with a book in his lap, looking up at the stars, contemplating the meaning of life. I looked at that cartoon image and […]

Here’s Molly’s story: Jeff Bezos’s Lazy Saturday Morning Routine

SEEING CHRIST IN QUIXOTEby Roy H. Williams The literary world has been drawn to Don Quixote for more than four centuries. It’s the most widely read book on earth, second only to the Bible. John Steinbeck said, “A story has as many versions as it has readers. Everyone takes what he wants or can from it and […]

It’s funny that you mentioned Fritz White in the Rabbit Hole last week. Fritz was famous in Loveland, Colorado. In 1980 he bought a run-down 1909 brick church and made it his home and studio. I now manage this church as an Airbnb.Funny little world we fart around in, huh?  🙂 Christina Gressianu 

The Wood-Pile BY ROBERT FROST (1912) Out walking in the frozen swamp one gray day, I paused and said, ‘I will turn back from here. No, I will go on farther—and we shall see.’ The hard snow held me, save where now and then One foot went through. The view was all in lines Straight up and down of tall slim […]

Here’s Jay’s Quick Test

Listen to Part One of Blaine and Honey’s Interview of Pennie and Roy Listen to Part Two of that same interview.

This is a feel-good story worth reading.

Never heard of the Kolbe action modes?

A Canvas of Earth What is the canvas of your artistic expression?  “Pen and ink,” says the writer.“Wet clay” says one sculptor,“Wood” says another,“Stone” says a third. And then the painters chime in singing, “Oils,” “Pencils,” “Charcoal,” and “Acrylic” in 4-part harmony. “Film” shouts a cinematographer,“Pixels” shouts another,and the photographers beat a steady rhythm on the lens covers of […]

The wizard’s answers are below. If you’ve got other answers, tips, contacts, or advice, Brian would love to hear them at brian@brianvos.com – Indy Brian, there are in my opinion two reasons to seek publishing. 1. You want your work to be read by the largest possible number of people.2. You want a number of […]

I just stumbled on the coolest mural in Downtown Tulsa. It’s a huge portrait of hometown boy, Leon Russell. I don’t know if I ever told you this story or not, but Larry Hall, the producer and musical director of my Christmas album, worked with Leon on his last album. He wrote and produced all […]

As the friend of one of the founders, you can be an ultra-early adopter of a new fashion trend. I’m just waiting for them to ask me to help design a shirt for dogs. – Indy

A peck is an imperial and U.S. customary unit of dry volume, equivalent in each of these systems to 2 gallons – 8 dry quarts – or 16 dry pints. Four pecks make a bushel. When Peter Piper picked his peck of pickled peppers, he picked the equivalent of 1/4 of a bushel.

Here’s the link to the Nov 18 rabbit hole. See if it works like Brad said.1: Open two different windows to the Kit Bull video on the Nov 18 link page. 2: Start Kit Bull in the first open window.3: Click your second window 10 pages past Kit Bull to Karen Carpenter. 4: Start her […]

Pennie, Becca, Cedric, Stephen, Rick, Paul, Joe, Dave, Chris, Zac, Gordon, Leah, Barry, Joe

You can’t play European DVDs in American DVD players because the European frame rate for video (PAL) is 25 frames per second and the American frame rate (NTSC) is 30 frames per second. Film projectors shows us 24 frames per second. In other words, the illusion of time passing at its normal speed can be […]

I heard a sonic boom as this video went over my head. – Indy Beagle

Hunger of the Candle for the Flame, April 10, 2006

Pennie, Becca, Cedric, Stephen, Rick, Paul, Joe, Dave, Chris, Zac, Gordon, Leah, Barry, Joe