Links

Other Blogs
Graphic Arts
My friend Saskia is both a painter, and a photographer. Her notes are all in Dutch, however the beauty she captures with the lens, and her playful brush cannot help but be understood. Her art and her ideas have often inspired me.
Literature
Traci Hilton is the wife of a dear old friend, and a very interesting friend in her own right. She writes stories, and has a deep interest in anthropology. In her, one finds what she calls ‘tin foil hat nuttiness’ as she explores people, places and beliefs. Her readers will enjoy a serial novel in between her social commentary and historical questions. I find her funny, thought provoking, and quite interesting, or perhaps — as better expressed by her husband, an ‘awe inspiring Oregonian’.

Carolina Maine if a young poet who lives rather near to me, also a rather pleasant young woman. Her blog is best described as literary criticism, as most of her creative content is hopefully destined for popular publication. (She is, also listed under the ‘poetic blogs).

Churches
Emporia Friends keeps a sermon and schedule blog. The pastor and her family are a good friends of mine, and a deep and impressive thinker, anyone who wants to do devotional reading should read Charity’s sermons.

If anyone is interested, I made maps of where Friends meet in my geographical area. There are maps of Mid-America Yearly Meeting, Great Plains Yearly Meeting, Iowa Yearly meeting, and their Conservative split, and Rocky Mountain Yearly Meeting. Another Friend made a similar map of North West Yearly meeting. Google Maps is sometimes a fun toy! Go there for driving instructions and web-links.

Blogs that link to me
I have not met any of these bloggers, but they link to me, so if you are curious about the writing style of people who like my poems — this would be a good place to check. Some of them are very talented.

Online Libraries:

CCEL is on online Christian library. The site used to be easy to navigate, unfortunately it has changed from a hypertext system to a web-application. The volunteer editors have been careful to give original publication information, including page breaks so books found at CCEL can be cited properly in an academic paper. The fact that the books are marked to a named print edition almost makes up for the foolish choice of making a web-application reader.

New Advent is a Roman Catholic internet library, which includes many writings from the early church, the Catholic Encyclopedia, the Holy Scriptures, and various modern essays. This library takes good advantage of hyperlinks, and it easy to navigate.

Quaker Heritage Press maintains on-line versions of their line. They offer print and online versions of a small number of otherwise out-of print Quaker books. I disagree with the owners of the press on several points, most notably the Farmington Maine prophecy, but I am grateful for their scholarship and their work in preparing and printing these neglected volumes.

Project Gutenberg is another electronic library, produced by volunteers. This is full of fiction, literature, and many popular books. The site is not academic in nature — but, instead focus on the fun of reading. While this site is not as good as the local public library, it is still highly recommended.

Librivox is an online audio-book library, all human read. This is a wonderful service to all who can listen. The only way that it is less than perfect is that often every chapter has the legal small print attached.