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So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish

I will not be updating this site for the foreseeable future, however, you are welcome to browse and explore the various images, writings, music, sound designs, and miscellany that have comprised Living the Liminal.

You can follow my further adventures at the following sites:

  • I am Liminal on Twitter
  • I will be writing essays at 52Essays.com
  • Short form sharing of videos, links, music, random thoughts can be found on my Tumblr
  • I will be working on creating a new centralized hub that will provide links to my various projects and creative works at PeterCWood.com
  • My photos are currently at Flickr

As I close down this particular project, this song is playing, so I share it with you and hope you will join me in my other online and writing endeavors.

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Actually

I will write a longer post about this soon, but I wanted to revise my previous post about what will be replacing Living the Liminal. I will be attempting to write an essay of 1000-2000ish words each week for the next year and you can find these essays at 52Essays.com. Will let you know why the domain name change in the first essay for that site, so make sure you bookmark or subscribe to the rss feed for 52 Essays!

Mahalo.

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Things I am grateful for

  • a family that never makes me feel guilty if i don’t come home for the holidays
  • SomaFM’s Secret Agent station – especially when walking around with earphones, it makes me feel like i’m in an exciting, mysterious, stylish movie that nobody around me knows i’m in
  • living within walking distance of school
  • the smell of cinnamon & orange
  • my creative capacities, even if i don’t exercise them as much as i feel i should
  • my true friends, though that is tinged with sorrow sometimes since they are scattered so far and wide
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Retiring Living the Liminal

Writing is not simply a way to express thoughts. Writing is, in a very real and literal sense, a way of thinking. Writing is also an embodied activity and to consider it as only a mental practice is to misunderstand the relationship between the mind and the body. There is not division between the two. …

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The Artists of Dionysus

Did you know that the first international guild/trade union in the western world was a theatrical one? The Artists of Dionysus operated to ensure that traveling actors were granted “freedom of travel, freedom from taxation, and freedom from arrest, should the local authorities seek security for the debt of a fellow countryman of the actor.”1 Also, during the 2nd century B.C., there was a guild of pantomimes and mimes called the Parasites. Labor history in the ancient world!

However, the coolest fact is that the final title of the organization at its end—circa 274/5—was best title of a guild/union ever:

The Sacred Musical Traveling Aurelian World Great Guild of the Artisans of Dionysus, Sacred Crowned Victors, and their Fellow Competitors.2

  1. Eric Csapo & William J. Slater, The Context of Ancient Drama, (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1995), 240. [↩]
  2. Ibid., 242 [↩]
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Organization

I continually struggle with organization issues, task lists, project lists etc. For a long time I was using Things for my project organization but there were some usability issues that annoyed me so I switched to OmniFocus and have been using that on all my devices (computer, iPad, iPhone) for slightly over a year. I …

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