The Dias de los Muertos have come and gone, and I thought I'd share with you
this interesting article about La Santa Muerte. Considering how the Dias de los Muertos were moved from mid-August to Halloween, All Saints' Day, and All Souls' Day when Catholic missionaries began converting the Aztecs, I find it facinating to discover that such an ancient tradition seems to be returning with the festival day for La Santa Muerte being on the 15th of August. Everything old is new again, eh?
Well, I'll do recaps at a later time as its late. I just wanted to write something here as part of my resolution to write more. At
WFC2004 I was asked if I was a writer, and when I said that I wasn't I was asked why I was even there! Despite the fact that they were obvious excluding artists, editors, musicians, publishers, and reviewers, they were discounting the fact that fans might be on the staff as well. I remember a time when I had it all planned out. I was going to get an AA in Classical Studies, a BA in Regious Studies, an MS in Library Sciences, become a librarian, and eventually start a comic book and graphic novel library (as usually people have to buy comics either new or as back issues, unlike most other periodicals). My ideas for microfiche comics and the like are unnecessary in the digital age, but for the most part the dream could still happen. However, I allowed the fact that UofA lost its Library Science accrediation to derail my plans. I couldn't afford out-of-state tuition, so I kept taking at least one class a semester while I switched to full time employment to keep me in the classwork groove until I figured out what I was going to do. Then my mother got married, everyone seemed to lose their jobs and I was supporting four people on my own and I quit taking classes. Now, years later and I'm still in debt from that time, haven't resumed classes, almost never write or sculpt anymore, and seem to have otherwise let my plans for the future go by the wayside.
One of the many reasons that I bicycle is that I would never otherwise make time to exercise. What I need is something similar that would require me to write. I don't know what it would be, but I would like to get back in the habit of using my creativity for something other than role playing games. Not that I want to quit doing those, they're my one remaining outlet of creativity. Instead, I'd just like to compliment that outlet with other forms which may fill other niches of my creativity.
"Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker." ~Zig Ziglar
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