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  (From my FaceBook page ("About me") where I'm working out all the details).

  With a background in geology, biology, philosophy and fine arts I have finally lost my taste for modern civilization along with having no family obligations since my son is on his way with his career in computer graphics. So, for a year now, I have been planning to become "homeless by choice" or maybe "running away as an adult" in the late spring/early summer of 2014 and exploring the range of the Ohio and…

Feet Trees:

Here's a quickee sampling of what can be done with calligraphy: 1/4 of the graduation requirements for art was an art project in area of expertise (I was pen and ink, others can be painting, photography, sculpture, etc.). My thesis project was making an 8th century (about 700 AD) Book of Ecclesiates in the style unique to the Irish/Scottish area using materials used at that time. (I'm doing a much fuller write up on this for an AAG blog I should finish this…

The Bible Before Printing

 Part 4: Techniques of the Scribal Arts

    A. Making Parchment…

The Bible Before Printing

 Part 4: Techniques of the Scribal Arts  

  A. Making Parchment

PART I - GENERAL…

  As I was working on the on-going project to digitize my notes, writings and files over the years, it came to me I had a large collection of materials to do a presentation for AAG members that might be interested on the process of bookmaking as it developed along with the History of the Bible itself as a book. Indeed, much of the early bookmaking and scribal arts was tailored exclusively towards the production of the…

I went back to my hometown, Lancaster, Ohio, Sunday to take part in a sunrise non-denominational Easter service on top of Mount Pleasant (250-foot (76 m) high sandstone bluff called "Standing Stone" by earlier Native American peoples.)  The service is a local tradition back to 1929.  Growing up my family always attended, followed by a (weather permitting) first picnic of Spring, than the cities Easter-egg hunt in the park below.  I only missed a few years when in the Marines and college in…

My very best wishes on this day that honors the most important and powerful creation of all!

Kahlil Gibran on Marriage 

From Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet

Then Almitra spoke again and said, And what of Marriage, Master?

And he answered saying:

You were born together, and…