Bea at her ceramic sculpture studio, May 2007, photo by Linna Muschlitz
Hi,
Eos: The Creative Context has gone through a series of incarnations since it originated January 1, 2008. I have high hopes for this most current version with Word Press. It should make it easier all around since the Blogger format was becoming a little cumbersome with the unfortunate effect of leaving some posts buried far too soon. This way with pages there should be a better handle on all the material.
So far, I am choosing to emphasize certain posts for the Pages, however other equally wonderful posts can be found in the Archives and Categories. Just click on a subject and author and you will find their multiple posts (assuming they have multiples, otherwise it will just be their single post). No doubt I will change the pages from time to time or find a way to make sub pages (which from what I understand is possible, however I have yet to discern how).
I am hoping that with this new format, it should be easier for readers to make comments. Please let me know if that is true or not, since comments are really the “payment” that the various authors and artists here would like to get.
I am currently figuring out Tags, which link writers and artists works to each others that they have here as well as to other sites.
Here in Eos: The Creative Context please find a welcome place to share and give voice to the coming age that seems to be rolling in towards us at locomotive speed these days. It is my feeling that we need to recognize each other while sharing our insights. By doing so we can then better help each other (while at the same time help the planet) in these chaotic times.
Eos as the Goddess of the Dawn is in many ways symbolic for the dawning New Age that is rapidly coming upon us. She is often depicted in her chariot guiding her two winged horses. At some point I am likely to do a new drawing depicting that (or something close enough) but for now am using my drawing called “The Itch” which to me stands for the urge that strikes us to create and makes us question at the same time.
So welcome–and let beauty, harmony, right action, love, compassion and constructive creative intelligence reign!
Bea Garth–editor
Please Note: Submissions are actively invited. Please post queries to info@beagarth.com
1. ‘No Comments’ at end of article is redundant with ‘0 Responses so far’. Also was not apparent that it could be clicked on. Solution: color it light blue and change it to ‘Add your comments’.
2. Rid the links at the top above the picture. The ‘Pages’ section is all you need and is better looking. Need to add ‘Front Page’. Could be last link under ‘Visual Art’.
3. Change label Mail to Email under ‘Leave a comment’
4. Entry for Website seems unnecessary to me but maybe that helps build network of writers (?).
5. After clicking on a link, it turns black making it look unclickable. Should change to purple which is standard for link already clicked on.
Thanks David. I chose a slightly different template so I hope it fixes some of the previous problems, at least sufficiently. Am not a website person per se so can only do so much. At some point I will learn how to change colors but do not know enough to do that now. Etc. I got rid of the popups by the way. I agree they were annoying. Hope the comments section is clear enough since I can’t seem to change the moniker so far…
Bea
I am not new to poetry or art-I’m new to blogs. How does one join or sign up or is their a place I’m missing that discribes all this?
thanks
hi Kent,
As noted above here, please post queries to info@beagarth.com for Eos. I will post things from you then assuming I am being good and am on top of all this plus like what you have got to say/write/paint/sculpt or whatever.
As far as signing up on a mailing list, however, just let me know via the above same email address. I periodically send out a mass email to let folks know of particular art/poetry events or some good art, writing, commentary etc. here on the blog…
Bea
PS–sorry I didn’t see your comment earlier. Was ill with a bug. Even wrote about it if you care to look on the Home Page.
Please include me for your mass e-mails and thanks for the speedy answer
THE SPARROW IN THE AIRPORT TERMINAL
There’s a piece of the sky
I can’t fly through.
I can see the clouds
but I can’t get there.
I can see farther than
a girl’s allowed to fly.
I can see a bird above me.
Why is he way up there?
I can’t find a way out.
I could get hurt here.
Kids and a box with wheels,
a man whose feet don’t care.
I need to find some dust,
a bush in which to preen.
I have dirt on my wings.
I need to get out of here.
It looked so big
I meant to come in.
If I could leave,
I could find a way around
the piece of the sky
I can’t fly through.
Then, I would
be free.