Coming soon, expect to see the Riddle that, if answered, will both demonstrate your riddlin’ scholarship, and earn you a scholarship to the Riddle workshop in November.
All respect due to the right honorable Martin Prechtel, who (as far as I know) conceived of such a delightful notion.
Keep your eyes peeled! But don’t expect it right away, either!
Impress your friends! Spread the Love. 
You can also find this info in the Events Calendar on the sidebar.
Like a dusky songbird
scratching at the Earth
You’ll never know me
Until I ride upon
the Sun’s shoulders
and chase away the Dark
or, arm-in-arm with the Moon,
softly silver the robes
of Night.
By the responses, everybody had a blast at the first Riddle Workshop, “A Supper of Raven’s Wings”. I plan to run another one in November…keep an eye out for more details! I’ll also look into getting online some of the ingenious riddles that workshop participants wrote. The biggest drawback of the workshop involved time: not enough.
High points involved the trip to the wildlife refuge and the private Quest Walks everyone did there….learning the secret cycle of the Riddler’s Round…the riddler’s tools of Questioning and Web Weaving…and the great feeling of “finding a home” for the pursuit of Questioning and Riddling.
Perhaps we’ll plan for a whole weekend next time…
Join instructor Willem Larsen in unraveling the web that ties ancient Spoken Traditions with the human experience in the mystery and beauty of the land. Explore how far your senses can reach, the capacity of your memory to re-experience past realities with astounding clarity, your intrinsic ability to speak and write fluent poetry of place, and the traditions of exploring mystery both physically through animal tracking and imaginatively through the solving and creating of riddles. Gain knowledge about a specific sampling of local plants, trees, and animals, through the applied use of your skills in Spoken Tradition. Edible, medicinal, ecological, metaphorical, and survival uses and relationships with our neighbors in the living world all come together in this workshop which reawakens the Bard in you.
1pm-6pm, Saturday August 19 and 9am-1pm Sunday August 20th. Location in Portland, Oregon, to be determined.
$25 per student, before July 28th. $40 after. Enrollment limited to 12 students.
Email Willem for more info, at mythic dot cartographer at gmail dot com.
What?
No thanks.
I have a decided lack of interest
in subjects
with less than a 10,000 year old history
of scholarship and discussion.
Hey! You! For One Dollar
I’ll tell you Three Lies
that will save your Life someday.
They will only work
if you believe them.
Do you feel up to it?
