ENDEAVOR ~ July 12, 2016
Stories of extraordinary effort & epic undertakings, heroic measures & of doing the utmost… against all odds
MAPPED ~ June 28, 2016
Stories of cartographic masterpieces, charted territories & terra incognita, of dragons & sea nymphs, surveyors & trailblazers & the myth of the fully mapped world
COSMOS ~ June 14, 2016
Tales of the universe expansive, the stars & planets & wonders of space, of invented worlds, imagined realities & our tiny place amongst it all.
LOGIC ~ May 24, 2016
Stories of reason & rationale, heated debates & carefully measured words, of common sense, uncommon insight & rare wisdom.
SABOTAGE ~ May 10, 2016
Tales of destruction & damage, espionage & subterfuge, of plans gone astray & plots masterfully undermined
FOLLY ~ May 3, 2016
Stories of failure and fortitude, bad ideas, rotten luck, lunatic ambition & the glories of ridiculous invention
QUEST ~ Apr 12, 2016
Tales of the hunter & the hunted, fabled treasures & impossible futures, legendary adventures, long-sought cures & quixotic pursuits
MUSE ~ Mar 22nd, 2016
Tales of inspiration & revelation, afflatus & stimulus, and the creative encouragement of fellow humans, divine entities, & mind-altering substances.
MEMORY ~ Mar 8, 2016
Tales of mind palaces & mnemonics, of extraordinary retention, agonizing loss, untrustworthy brains & why you can’t remember where you put your keys.
Invocations: Intercourse of Minds
Our memories are tricky things, adapting and evolving, sometimes unduly influenced by outside sources. Our own minds often can not be trusted to hold anything related to objective reality. But in a essay written in 2013 for the New York Review of books, neurologist Oliver Sacks, himself the author of many wonderful explorations of memory and loss, wrote on what is perhaps a silver lining.
