The Hall of Fire

Welcome, ttbk.

Welcome to Impy and Teremia.

I'm so excited I could burst.

Welcome to Elengil, tp, Eru, Rebecca and TheWatcher. I'm glad you are all here.

Welcome to Maiden and Alatar.

Two more to scratch off my list of people to contact to see if they wanted to come check this place out.

Greetings to Angel, cem, Frelga, Anthy and vison. I am so glad you are all here.

Please settle in and make yourself comfortable.

If an existential ‘yes’ is the moral choice required of us, then it must also be possible for us to say ‘no’. The existence of Free Will is therefore foundational to this story - not only our free will but also God’s. (If Jesus had no choice, his ‘yes’ would have no meaning either.) From this comes...

As many people know, I play in an ensemble that plays traditional (or at least mostly traditional) West African percussion, specifically from the Mandingue people of the old Mali empire, mostly what is now Guinea and Mali and parts of surrounding countries. This music is truly ensemble music. With a...

No, and no.

Its someplace in China, I believe. I've never been there.

Ethel, it is scheduled for 10 p.m. GMT tomorrow - 2 p.m. Pacific (which I am guessing is 3 pm your time, though I could be wrong). It'll probably be a few minutes after that before your permissions are actually set, but you will be first. :hug: (You should receive an email indicating that you have b...

Sadly, Prim, that is very much true when comes to drums, because of the drum circle/community drumming phenomenom. I will definitely be starting a thread about this in The Cottage of Lost Play in the near future.

[terminator voice]She'll be back[/terminator voice]

Former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres quit the Labor Party on Wednesday, leaving his political home of nearly six decades to campaign for Ariel Sharon's new centrist party. The 82-year-old Peres, who has held every major Cabinet position, left Labor after his humiliating loss to union leader A...

I'm tempted to change the title to "What is Art?" Now that would be interesting discussion.

w00t!

Okay, then the Himalayas.

I'd have to guess the Alps, but that is only a guess. I'll say the Matterhorn, though I am sure that is not right.

Hobby, its really hard for me to put this in words that have any real meaning. I grew up a city boy. Well, worse then that, really. A suburban boy, with blah surroundings and a blah attitude. I think that is one of the reasons that I fled the east coast for the west coast. Not that there are not bea...

Indeed it is, my dear Athrabeth. When I was a teenager, I went on a "teen tour" that made a loop through the western part of North America (mostly in the U.S, needless to say). So many beautiful places! But the two main places that stood out in my memory more then any others were Yosemite ...

One of the most beautiful places I've ever been to in my life. Anyone recognize it? (Hint: It is not in the United States)