New England Style Fortunetelling Introduction

Aka: Letters From The Farm #1<The Overview & Booklet .. .. .. Letter #2> “Fortuneteller’s Table”Acrylic & digital painting by Stone Riley Letters From The Farm #1 I would like to explain why that is this essay’s alternative title.I have a blog, and this essay will be my first post in several weeks,so a fewContinue reading “New England Style Fortunetelling Introduction”

I Direct My Staves To Revelations

This is a report of an Animist Ceremony i performed this morning. :: :: :: :: ::At a wonderful retreat last weekend, the good folks spoke of the sheer living power of Raw Animism. Yesterday was Monday, and in the evening i began the ancient practice decisively, in a ceremony at the ford of aContinue reading “I Direct My Staves To Revelations”

Tell The Sorrow Joy – Morphing The Whole World

Tell The Sorrow Joy – Morphing The Whole World Excerpt, Pg 11.. Morphing The Whole World Purpose of this section.. ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ???? What About Changing?? ? THE FUTURE??? OF THE WHOLE WORLD?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? Dear Reader, caution! If you are aCautious Person, evenContinue reading “Tell The Sorrow Joy – Morphing The Whole World”

Tell The Sorrow Joy – Time Can Become Epic

Tell The Sorrow Joy – Time Can Become Epic Excerpt, Pg 8.. Time Can Become Epic ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Purpose of this section..~ Time Can Become Epic In Story World,~ When Community Soul Ignites~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Well-cooked Story is elastic.Warning.. I’m going to use another examplefrom my own life, another Real Artist story.Why not? I am your coach. I’llContinue reading “Tell The Sorrow Joy – Time Can Become Epic”

So Okay It’s Paleolithic Times

So Okay It’s Paleolithic Times {- longish poem stone riley creative commons 2020 the creds are at bottom -} Well, okay it’s paleolithic times, and you and me and the other kids, well this is the boys mainly I’m mainly talking about, or else mainly girls, or whoever shows up really, well, you see, weContinue reading “So Okay It’s Paleolithic Times”

Merlin In The Garden

Merlin In The Garden {- long poem riley creative commons 2020 the creds are at bottom -} A non-Socratic dialog on war, peace and the life of plants. I must tell you, patient friend, that in that one full sum­mer of peace amid the savage war (while King Uther Pendragon threw himself into the civilContinue reading “Merlin In The Garden”

The Passing Of Uther Pendragon

{-Prior-} …. : FRIENDSHIP SERIES #6 : …. {-First-} This post in a Pdf file … {-www.stoneriley.com/grab36-}All the posts in 1 Pdf … {-www.stoneriley.com/grab30-} = A Druidic Play in Shakespeare-Style Verse, =Set In King Arthur’s Time(a stage play grown from a live storytelling performance)Long one-act of Sovereignty flowing to Arthur from:His FATHER UTHER, the belovedContinue reading “The Passing Of Uther Pendragon”

The Three In British Lore

The Three In British Lore {- poem stone riley creative commons 2020 the creds are at bottom -} A philosophic note on mythology. “The matter of Britain” That’s what scholars call the King Arthur tales – and have done since the Middle Ages at least – as if that vast dense web of scenes, charactersContinue reading “The Three In British Lore”

Telling The Fisher King: True Story

Telling The Fisher King: True Story … If I may make a long story short.. I do know story pretty well. It has been the school and core of my artistic practice. I learned it by years of diligent performance. We started in 1969, me and story, talking war resistance with fellow US. Soldiers duringContinue reading “Telling The Fisher King: True Story”