For all the unaware, this is my first post of the new year. Unlike other times, it’s because I’ve been busy in a relatively positive way, so at the risk of posting something useless and boring, here’s an update on life.<\/p>\n
A few things vie for my time these days, so it’s a relief to have stumbled upon two that can go hand-in-hand and contribute to each other (at least by keeping me focused and awake). The two? Listening to audiobooks and a certain, mindless craft that I’m leaving ambiguous (because I want to leave it unknown). When I lived in Provo I’d listen to audiobooks while cleaning or organizing but there’s only do much of that you can do. My unspecified craft-hobby helps me stay awake but let’s me focus on the audiobook even more than cleaning does, so that’s nice. I’ve gotten quite a few audiobooks listened to this way so far.<\/p>\n
Guilt visits me every time I do this, however. Someone lent me The Masks of God<\/a>, a series by Joseph Campbell about half a year ago. Reading it has taken me longer than I’ve ever required for books lent to me. If you’ve ever picked a Joseph Campbell book up before you can probably guess why, but as difficult as his writing is, I love what he’s got to say. I really do like the series a lot, but it’s not a stress-free read, and I’ve definitely had plenty of stress in my life these last two years. Anyway, I’ve been reading a lot more from these books and have gained quite a bunch of material to work with (bluestone.tdspeirs.com<\/a> is my most visible example right now). I want to get these books finished off in the near future as this year promises to be busy.<\/p>\n That Bluestone portal came to me while I was reading about the battle between Zeus<\/a> and Typhon<\/a> in Occidental Mythology<\/a>, book 3 of Campbell’s series. The comparison of this battle with others played right into my hand, or mind if you prefer. People are aware of a series of books I’ve been working on that “overthrows” (more accurate to say it “rewrites,” but I like the word overthrows more) all we know or think we know about mythology, history, fairytale, folklore and more. That’s quite the daunting goal, but a massive amount of it could never fit in my story, so I decided to create a site where I can tell those tales and rewrite them as they “really happened” and so forth. Unfortunately bluestone.com<\/a> is a claimed domain, so I went with bluestone.tdspeirs.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n There’s always other aspects life and figuring medical stuff out (not sure at the moment if there is or is not progress in this department). Life’s rough and busy. A silver lining? Well for all of you who get the reference (of those who actually read my posts, that’ll be almost nobody) “I have to go see about a girl”…soon. Somehow. Yadda yadda yadda amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For all the unaware, this is my first post of the new year. Unlike other times, it’s because I’ve been busy in a relatively positive way, so at the risk of posting something useless and boring, here’s an update on life. A few things vie for my time these days, so it’s a relief to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-541","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"category-update-on-life","8":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}