LIFE AS MYTH
JOURNAL
JOURNAL 2023
Sabbatical
A period of rest
During 2023, Life as Myth and its author are on sabbatical.
LIFEWORKS
ATLAS
JOURNAL 2023
SABBATICAL
. . . It is certainly not necessary to abandon modern science and technology in order to bring our relationship with the planet and each other back into balance. The paradigm shift that is necessary here requires both our present and our past myths to inform our future one.
"The lost myth of planet earth", Usher. Collected writings (c. 2007)
During 2023, Life as Myth and its author are on sabattical.
The illuminated codex of magical creatures, Usher, 2021. caption: “Plate XIV. Enteroctopus andromada with prey. Ancestor to Giant Pacific Octopus (Enteroctopus dofleini, previously Octopus apollyon).”
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Panocticon aka Panoptipus, Usher, 2015. Source: web access logs, current news quotes, a 19th Century lithograph of a sea monster, 20th Century photograph.
Eye test chart. George Mayerle. Images from the History of Medicine (IHM) 1907. Public Domain.
National Library of Medicine, NIH, caption: George Mayerle's eye test chart "combined four subjective tests done during an eye examination. Running through the middle of the chart, the seven vertical panels test for acuity of vision with characters in the Roman alphabet (for English, German, and other European readers) and also in Japanese, Chinese, Russian, and Hebrew. A panel in the center replaces the alphabetic characters with symbols for children and adults who were illiterate or who could not read any of the other writing systems offered. Directly above the center panel is a version of the radiant dial that tests for astigmatism. On either side of that are lines that test the muscular strength of the eyes. Finally, across the bottom, boxes test for color vision, a feature intended especially (according to one advertisement) for those working on railroads and steamboats."
