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Rick Roirdan Presents
Rick Roirdan Presents My children and I are huge fans of Percy Jackson. We absolutely adore The Kane Chronicles and The Magnus Chase Series. Roirdan’s writing style is both intelligent and funny. Though often dealing with darker themes, he keeps … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, education, Literature/Pop Culture, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged African, African American, Arizona, Aru Shah, Aru Shah and the End of Time, Aru Shaw and the City of Gold, Aru Shaw and the Tree of Wishes, Aztec, City of the Plague God, Cuban, Educational, Funny, Ghana, Gum Baby, Hindu, India, Intelligent, Kwame Mbalia, Magic, Mayan, Mesopotamian, Mexico, Middle School, Multiverse, Mythology, Native American, Navajo, Paoloa Santiago and the River of Tears, Percy Jackson, Race to the Sun, Rebecca Roanhorse, Rick Roirdan, Rick Roirdan Presents, Roshani Chokshi, Sal and Gabi Break The Universe, Sal and Gabi Fix The Universe, Santeria, Sawat Chadda, Sense of Humor, Tehlor Kay Mejia, The Dragon Pearl, The Kane Chronicles, The Magnus Chase Series, The Star Touched Queen, The Storm Runner, Tristan Strong Punches A Hole In the Sky, West Africa, Yoon Ha Lee, Young Adult
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She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power November 2018 This She-Ra is less edgy than the original perhaps, but more modern. She-Ra represents modern Feminism and it is interesting to note the sometime subtle differences crept up in the 32 or … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Event, Feminism, Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV, Mythology
Tagged 11 years old, 17-18 years old, 1985, 20-25 years old, 2018, Adora, Angella, anime, backstory, Balance Nature, Big Hero Six, Bow, Brightmoon, Broom, California Hippie, Castaspella, Catra, Crystal Castle, Die, Eco-Feminist, Entrapta, Erroll Flynn, Eternia, Etheria, Evil, Feminist, Feminist Ecology, First Ones, For The Honor of Grayskull, Frosta, Frosta Eskimo, Game of Thrones, Glimmer, Goddess, Good, Greed, Halo, He-Man, Headdress, Hordak, Horse, horsey, Industrialization, Jack Sparrow, Jem, Kill, King Micha, Light Hope, Lighthope, Lyanna Mormont, Madam Raz, Magic, Maleficent, malevolent, Mermista, Mermista Indian, mother and daughter, mother-daughter relationship, Mysticism, mysticore, Nature, Netflix, Norse Mythology, old woman, Pastoral, Pegasus, Perfuma, Perfuma Mixed Race. Bow Black, Planet, Princess of Power, Princesses of Power, psychological manipulation, Queen Angella, Rebel, Rebel Camp, Rebellion, Runes, Scorpia, Sea Hawk, Secret of the Sword, sexualized, shadow tendrils, Shadow Weaver, Shadoweaver, She-ra, Spinnerella, Star Wars, Star Wars Prequels, Storm Troopers, Swift Wind, Swiftwind, Synergy, Tech, Technology, The Fright Zone, The Horde, The Incredibles, Unicorn, Vallkyrie, Whispering Woods, Woods
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From Beast to Blonde
From Beast To Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers Mariana Warner, 1994 This is an entrancing, multi-layered and as wittily subversive as fairy tales themselves, this beautifully illustrated work explores and illuminates the unfolding history of famous fairy tales … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, History, Literature/Pop Culture, Psychology, Writing
Tagged Andrew Lange, Archetypal, Babies, Beauty and the Beast, Belle, Blue, Charles Perrault, Children, Disney, Fairy, Fairytales, Folklore, Green, Hades, Inner Beast, Justice, Magic, Marian Warner, McKinny, Mother Goose, Nana, Nanny, Nurse, old crones, Old Women, Persephone, Red, Robin McKinney, Rose, Roses, Sex, Silence, Simon Magus, Social Context, Spring, stores, Storks, survival skills, sybls, Tales, The Beast and the Blonde, Travel, Venus, Violet, Wives Tales, Wizard, Yellow
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The Dark Tower Series
June 18, 2006 The Tower We journeyed toward the tower, passing through the wilderness. The sun was setting in the western sky, but it was still incredibly hot. What was the tower anyway? The center of power? The gateway to … Continue reading
Posted in Literary Criticism, Literature/Pop Culture, Lost, Movies/TV
Tagged 1982, 1987, 1991, 1997, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2012, Archetype, Bad Twin, Beams, bleak Mid-World, Books, Childe Roland To the Dark Tower Came, Clint Eastwood, Creation, Destruction, Gorman Nature Center, Imagination, Immortality, Intertexuality, Journey, Ka, Literature, Lost, Magic, Magnum Opus, Portal, Post Modern, Randall Flagg, Reading, Robert Browning, Roland, Sawyer, skpetical world, Stephen King, The Crimson King, The Dark Tower Series, The Drawing of the Three, The Gunslinger, The Lord of the Rings, The Man with No Name, The Wizard in Glass, World, Writing
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Indiana Jones Books
Indiana Jones Books In 1991, I discovered a new series of books that expanded upon the universe created in the three original Indiana Jones movies. Author Rob McGregor, who had written the novelization of The Last Crusade, returned to write … Continue reading
Posted in Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV
Tagged 19 year hiatus, 1981, 1985, 1989, 1991, 1992-1995, Aliens, California Jones, Cari Lynn Vaughn, Cartoons, Cold War, College, Deidre Campbell, Disney, Famous People, Franchise, George Lucas, Harry Potter, Historical Figures, Indiana Jones, Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull, Indiana Jones and the Dance of the Giants, Indiana Jones and the Dance of the Seven Veils, Indiana Jones and the Dinosaur Eggs, Indiana Jones and the Genesis Deluge, Indiana Jones and the Hollow Earth, Indiana Jones and the Interior World, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Indiana Jones and the Peril at Delphi, Indiana Jones and the Philosopher's Stone, Indiana Jones and the Secret of the Sphinx, Indiana Jones and the Sky Pirates, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Indiana Jones and the Unicorn's Legacy, Indiana Jones and the White Witch, inspiration, Irony, James Bond, Jurassic Park, Killed, Magic, Married, Martin Cadin, Max McCoy, Mystical, Nazis, Novels, Oracles, Peru, plot, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Religious, Rob McGregor, Sean Connery, Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea, Spiritual, Stephen Spielberg, Steve Perry, Suspension of Disbelief, The Bible, The Lost Testaments, The Mysterious Cities of Gold, The Purple Rose, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Time Travel, Tukyme, TV show, Voynich Manuscript, World War Two
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Origins of Oz
Origins of Oz As a child I loved reading about the land of Oz. Although unique in that it was the first truly American Fairy Tale, there appears to be more to it. I took an interest in New Age … Continue reading
Posted in Literature/Pop Culture, Lost, Movies/TV
Tagged America, Assyrian Exile, Atlantic, Atlantis, Australia, Ben Linus, California, Continent, Cyclone, Desert, Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, Edgar Cayce, electromagnetic, Ev, Fairy Land, Heba, Hebrews, Henry Gale, Incas, India, Island, James Churchill, L Frank Baum, Lemuria, Lost, Madagascar, Madam Blatskvy, Magic, Mayans, Mexico, Mound Builders, Mu, New Mexico, Og, Oz, Ozma of Oz, Pacific, Phillip Sclater, San Fransisco, The Lost Tribes of Israel, The Mysterious Cities of Gold, Theosophy, Tornado
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The Spiral Dance
The Spiral Dance The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess by Starhawk came out in 1979 and was reprinted in 1989. This bestselling classic is both an unparalleled reference on the practices and philosophies of … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism, Mythology, Wicca
Tagged 1979, 1989, A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddes, Air, Alter, Altered State of Conscious, Attitude, Birth, California Starhawk, Candles, Celtic Druids, Coming Out oF The Broom Closet, Coven, Death, Dream Journal, Dreams, Earth, East, Energy, Fair Folk, Fear, Feminity, Fire, Guardian, Herbs, Incense, Interconnectedness, Jewish, Knowledge, Law, Litha, Love, Lucid Dreaming, Lugnasad, Mabon, Magic, Matriarchy, No Good or Evil, North, Oils, Passion, Patriarchy, Pentacle, Picts, Pixies, Power, Pride, Projection, Rebirth, Samhain, Sex, Shadow Self, Sidhe, South, Spells, Sword, Symbolic, The Horned God, The Spiral Dance, UCLA, Wand, Water, West, Wheel of the Year, Wicca, Wisdom, Yule
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Truth or Dare
Truth Or Dare Truth or Dare: Encounters with Power, Authority and Mystery by Starhawk came out in 1987. Truth or Dare is about the roles we play that society places on us. Magic is a liberation type of psychology. How … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism, Politics/Economics, Wicca
Tagged Abuse, Afraid of Pain, Authority and Mystery, choice, Creation, Culture of Life, Cycle, Encounters With Power, experience, Fears, Freedom, Goddess, Guilt, Healers, Honor, Languge, Liberation, Magic, Patriarchal, Power, Punishment, Questions, Rebellion, Reclaim, Renew, Ritual, Sacred Space, Self-Hate, Spiral Dance, Spirituality, Starhawk, Teachers, Truth or Dare, Victims, Wicca, Witch, Withdrawal
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The Twelve Wild Swans
The Twelve Wild Swans The Twelve Wild Swans: A Journey to the Realm of Magic, Healing and Action by Starhawk and Hilary Valentine came out in 2001. The Twelve Wild Swans is an introduction to a mature level of Wicca … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism, Mythology, Psychology, Wicca
Tagged 2001, A Journey To The Realm of Magic, activism, Avalon, Being Carried Away, Brothers, Center, Chanting, Criticism, Dance, Dreaming the Dark, Drugs, Earth-Based Religion, Ecstasy, Face Our Fears, Feminism, Goddess, Healing, Healing and Action, Hilary Valentine, Inner Power, Lunar Cycle, Magic, Meditation, personal growth, Power, Reborn, reclaiming, Rose, Self, Shadow Selves, Silence, Starhawk, The Fifth Sacred Thing, The Spiral Dance, The Twelve Wild Swans, Transformation, Truth or Dare, Vow of Silence, Weaving, Wicca, Wicked Step-Mother, Witchcraft, Zodiac
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