#The Ghostway

[dk-thrive]

“Everything is connected. The wing of the corn beetle affects the direction of the wind, the way the sand drifts, the way the light reflects into the eye of man beholding his reality. All is part of totality, and in this totality man finds his hozro, his way of walking in harmony, with beauty all around him.”

― Tony Hillerman, The Ghostway (HarperCollins e-books; October 13, 2009) (via Alive on All Channels)

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Shiprock (Diné: Tsé Bitʼaʼí, meaning "the rock with wings"), San Juan Co, NM. Photo: John V. Reed (Apr 24, 2024) :: [Robert Scott Horton]

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“From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.” ― Tony Hillerman, Coyote Waits

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“Everything is connected. The wing of the corn beetle affects the direction of the wind, the way the sand drifts, the way the light reflects into the eye of man beholding his reality. All is part of totality, and in this totality man finds his hozro, his way of walking in harmony, with beauty all around him.” ― Tony Hillerman, The Ghostway

[whisperthatruns]

Look---here he comes, his bones are willow & he sings in birds. He rises in marsh, slips forwards by ripple & shiver. Between his tree-ribs birds flutter, then swoop ahead to settle, sing, quiver. His head is a raven’s, his eyes are wrens’ nests. By day from his throat fly finch & fire-crest & in anger he speaks only in swifts.

Look---here she comes, her skin is lichen & her flesh is moss & her bones are fungi, she breathes in spores & she moves by hyphae. She is a rock-breaker, a tree-speaker, a place-shaper, a world-maker.

Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood, from Ness, Ghostways: Two Journeys in Unquiet Places (W. W. Norton & Company, 2020; orig. pub. 2018)

[mtg-cards-hourly]

Ghostway

"I watched its blade swing through me, but I was hollow, empty. I saw its face contort in rage but could not hear it snarl." —Klattic, Boros legionnaire

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[krikidilly]

Welcome to the Ghostway, passenger. May you enjoy your eternal stay.

[hotniatheron]

i think people who like Annihilation would like Ghostways by Robert MacFarlane

[violetsgayhouse]

gamers. ive encounters a problem

i had been thinking of making my glitchy tag song lyric, which i have figured out which lyric, but also

i realized i could also just make it "tomogachi boyfriend" based off the vocal stim that spawned while i was reading the fic ever

[markrosewater]

May I please request a mass blink/flicker spell with a mono blue color identity?

There multiple versions of this effect that are mono white (i.e. Another Round, Semester's End, Ghostway, Eerie Interlude) and there have been some that have White and Blue color identity too (i.e. Brago, King Eternal, Disorder in the Court, Yorion, Sky Nomad). It would be really nice to have some that are mono blue for Commander purposes!

White is primary in flickering and blue is secondary, so mass flickering is more a white thing. That doesn't mean blue can never get it, but it needs the right set.

[botchedandecstatic]

Books Read/Reread, May/June 2024

Alexandra West, Gore-Geous: Personal Essays on Beauty and Horror Ann Radcliffe, The Italian* Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho* Ann Radcliffe, A Sicilian Romance* Jules Michelet, The Sea Jac Jemc, The Grip of It Dubravka Ugresic, The Culture of Lies Christiane Ritter, A Woman in the Polar Night Deborah Stratman & Sukhdev Sandhu, Geologic Listening Philip Hoare, The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea Jon Fosse, Septology Adrian Howkins, The Polar Regions: An Environmental History Johshua Blu Buhs, Think to New Worlds: The Cultural History of Charles Fort and His Followers Hirokai Sato, On Haiku Zito Madu, The Minotaur at Calle Lanza Robert MacFarlane, Stanley Donwood, & Dan Richards, Ghostways: Two Journeys in Unique Places Zdenka Sokolíčková, The Paradox of Svalbard: Climate Change and Globalisation in the Arctic Mary Shelley, Frankenstein* Becca Rothfield, All Things Are Too Small * = reread

[godzilla-reads]

📖 Ghostways: Two Journeys in Unquiet Places by Robert Macfarlane, Stanley Donwood, and Dan Richards

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

This book was… different from what I expected. It’s split into two sections, “Ness” and “Holloway”. Each had its good qualities, but each also had negative qualities. Ness was very poetic, but at times it didn’t make sense. Holloway was touching, but it was short and felt thrown together.

By the end of this I was left thinking: did I actually “get this”? Did I understand what it meant?

If I didn’t understand the words, the pictures were at least very beautiful.

[ronk]

Everything is connected. The wing of the corn beetle affects the direction of the wind, the way the sand drifts, the way the light reflects into the eye of man beholding his reality. All is part of totality, and in this totality man finds his hozro, his way of walking in harmony, with beauty all around him.

Tony Hillerman, The Ghostway

HOZRO: the Navajo word meaning to be in harmony with one’s environment, at peace with one’s circumstances, free from anger or anxieties, generally content.

[dk-thrive]

When you need it, it is there, in your mind.

“Memorize places,” his uncle had told him. “Settle your eyes on a place and learn it. See it under the snow, and when first grass is growing, and as the rain falls on it. Feel it and smell it, walk on it, touch the stones, and it will be with you forever. When you are far away, you can call it back. When you need it, it is there, in your mind.”

― Tony Hillerman, The Ghostway (Harper, January 1, 1778) (via Alive on All Channels)

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

[1920s Child in the Light Photography by C.T. Benscoter [my Grandfather] 

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“Memorize places,” his uncle had told him. “Settle your eyes on a place and learn it. See it under the snow, and when first grass is growing, and as the rain falls on it. Feel it and smell it, walk on it, touch the stones, and it will be with you forever. When you are far away, you can call it back. When you need it, it is there, in your mind.”

― Tony Hillerman, The Ghostway

[whisperthatruns]

She is not green but she makes green. Colour is not a possessed property. You cannot see her if you look straight at her. Like the pigmentless fur of certain moles which turns light gold, though they have no life of light & no need of gold; like the feather-stream on a kingfisher's back which bends light through its barbs & splits it into blue water & blue jewels, she makes green & green fills the air around her & warps hard into objects within her radiance.

Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood, from Ness, Ghostways: Two Journeys in Unquiet Places (W. W. Norton & Company, 2020; orig. pub. 2018)

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Detective Marcie

[krikidilly]

What strange kids