Journey to the Sea 1

July 1, 2008

I made a goal six months ago to spend more time this year studying myth; I am now halfway through the year, and I have been doing exactly that. (You can read some of the history of this goal in two posts from eariler this year: Pathways to Bliss and Myth Enthusiast.)

I am happy to announce that I have launched a new web site, an online myth magazine called “Journey to the Sea”. I published the first issue today, which contains two articles I have written and one by a good friend of mine.

Myth: A Defintion — Journey to the Sea is a new online magazine devoted to the study of myth. The English word myth has many connotations, and Randy describes what we mean by myth throughout this site. Full article »
God and Man: Two Western Themes — Many Western traditions teach that mankind is separate from the divine. They typically reflect one of two contrary themes concerning man’s proper response to the divine. Full article »
Magic in the World of Alvin Maker: Seventh Son (by Laura Gibbs) — Laura begins her series on the “ecology of magic” that storytellers create for their imagined worlds, looking first at the alternate America imagined by Orson Scott Card in his Alvin Maker series. Full article »

The current plan is to publish one issue of this same size (three articles, a thousand words each) once a month. I realized some time ago that writing about something really helps me learn the material, and I had been planning since the beginning of the year to start writing about myth. This has definitely been the case writing these first two articles, and I think this online magazine will be a great format for me to continue to explore myth.

I have spent quite a bit of time lately looking for fonts. I saw a fun video about building a web start-up earlier this year, around the time I started building my Amesbury Web site. The creator of this video recommended that small companies avoid paying design fees for a logo early on and instead just buy a good font and work from that (see 3:20-4:00 of the video). I have been scouring the web for typefaces, and last week I made my first font purchase and created logos that I really like for both Journey to the Sea and Amesbury Web.