{"id":528,"date":"2005-10-06T19:08:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-06T19:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=528"},"modified":"2005-10-06T19:08:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-06T19:08:00","slug":"528","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=528","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

This post is filler<\/strong><\/p>\n

I don’t normally let a week go by without blogging, but thing happened, like being asked by a magazine-editor friend to write a 2,000-word “think piece” on the dilemmas of a being an “evacuee”–from a forest fire in my case, but with obvious relevance to Katrina and Rita.<\/p>\n

That took up last Sunday afternoon, which meant I was behind on reading student work . . . and it snowballed.<\/p>\n

I also received the “author’s marketing questionnaire” for Her Hidden Children<\/em>, which is a good sign, and I’m scrambling for more photos. If you have any photos of key figures in American Paganism in the 1950s-1970s (or even earlier–Gleb Botkin, anyone), let me know. This weekend, meanwhile, I have to work on the questionnaire.<\/p>\n

This Saturday I will take some nature-writing students on a mini-writing marathon in the SE Colorado canyon country. We won’t be visiting any of the “Colorado ogham”<\/a> sites, but we will be near enough that I plan to bring Bill McGlone’s<\/a> photo book of SE Colorado rock art, which includes some examples. (Quick overview of Ogham writing<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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