What is Best in Life

The gunfight at the OK Corral is one of the central stories in American mythology. Good and evil, law and order, such black and white concepts are set against each other with the “guys in white hats” victorious when the dust of the gunfight settles. Even the rogue Doc Holliday emerges as a sort of Robin Hood merely by choosing the right side to fight on. This legend is the backdrop for Oakley Hall’s book Warlock, one of the finest westerns I have ever read.
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Is origami art? The question is not completely fair since origami involves the act of creation after all, making its artistry hard to argue against. Still, can origami really be elevated to the level of the great masterworks of film, painting, music, writing, etc.? I also do not mean to put the word art on a pedestal. There is a natural tendency that I will try to avoid that uses the classification “art” as a badge of honor; “oh, my framed puzzles are ART not a hobby”. Mainly I’d like to look at origami along with the process involved in its creation to see if I can justify the amount of time I spend folding it.
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This is my contribution to a zine of art, photography and writing loosely centered on the theme “person place thing”. Anyone interested in getting a copy and checking out the other contributions should contact Jon or Janie (or head out to Love Garden to get a copy if they still have some…the zine was released August 2007). They put a lot of work into this self produced zine and it looks very nice.

As for myself, I’ve been writing more fairy tales lately and this is the first post in my fairy tale series. Each entry attempts to analyze one archetypical element of myths legends and fairy tales in a short introductory essay followed by an original fairy tale utilizing some of the elements that have just been discussed.
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