occasional posts by risa aratyr
Risa Aratyr It’s much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That’s the truth. [Oprah Winfrey] Midwinter-tide was all about picking the interior colors. Not an easy task, omg. With 200 decisions to make per square foot (so they tell me), I … Read more BE-COMING HOME: a real paint job
Commercials capture your attention, that’s all. [Calvin Klein] December was atypically, excessively, unrelievedly dry. Bad news in the grand scheme of things, but the lack of rain did allow exterior house-work to progress nicely. The lower deck took shape. Redwood rails appeared on the upper posts. Martín started laying the ipê decking, and here’s Roy … Read more BE-COMING HOME: on with the show
Runes you will find, and readable staves, Very strong staves, Very stout staves, Staves that Bolthor stained, Made by mighty powers, Graven by the prophetic god, For the gods by Odhinn, for the elves by Dain, By Dvalin, too, for the dwarves, By Asvid for the hateful giants, And some I carved myself: Thund, before … Read more BE-COMING HOME: behind the walls
However, as a guarantee of its renewed youth, the symbolical phoenix never reappeared before the eyes of the world without having consumed solemnly the remains and evidences of its previous life. [Transcendental Magic; Its Doctrine and Ritual, Éliphas Lévi] End of October, beginning of November, the front entrance took serious shape – just in time … Read more BE-COMING HOME: a year to the day
There is some of the same fitness in a man’s building his own house that there is in a bird’s building its own nest. Who knows but if men constructed their dwellings with their own hands, and provided food for themselves and families simply and honestly enough, the poetic faculty would be universally developed, as … Read more BE-COMING HOME: true colors