Torsdagens bloggstatistik är egentligen mer än bara siffror. Varje vecka tittar jag på visningar, läsare och vilka inlägg som fått mest uppmärksamhet. Men ibland berättar statistiken mindre än livet självt. 🇬🇧 read this in English Thursday Blog Statistics – More Than Just Numbers Torsdagens bloggstatistik visar det som syns Idag har jag tittat på statistiken igen. Hundra visningar på en…

We recently had a crab fest at the house—my aunt, my cousin, Craig’s cousins—all gathered around the table with food, laughter, and plenty of conversation. Our dog, Flo, was in her element. She loves company, and everyone gave her plenty of attention. At one point, Craig’s cousin Brian stepped away from the table. Flo saw the open space and made herself comfortable right there, stretched out…

My political critiques are acidic performances primarily intended for those who already agree with me. Basically, bitchy brunchtime sermons preaching to the choir.

I favor linking to the work of others rather than risk the emotional vulnerability of putting my own ideas out into the world.

How Will You End the Year and Begin the Next? #newyear 2025, #confidence #ideas #anxiety #resolutions #iloveme #iloveyou #lessons #stronger #reflect #zsoltzsemba

How Will You End the Year and Begin the Next? As the year winds down, it’s natural to reflect on what’s passed and start imagining what’s ahead. Over the last few blogs, we’ve explored some big ideas: learning to love yourself, breaking free from fear, overcoming anxiety, and embracing confidence. Now it’s time to bring it all together and ask yourself some important questions: What are you…

The 500th Blog! Wow!

Well…This has been an amazing journey. When I first had the idea for a blog, I promised myself I would do a blog a day for a year. I never thought I could keep that promise to myself. However, I did… Or shall I say we did? If it were not without help and support from my friend Janet, who edits and looks over my blogs. I am sure I would have looked foolish numerous times without her help and…

Well, that was an interesting challenge for me! Writing a blog definitely does not look so easy as I thought before. It was useful to work on this unusual type of assignment format and most importantly, it was helpful to reflect on my own progress. It was interesting to apply my knowledge of the media analysis into a real postable content. As I mentioned in my first post, the media that I’m the most familiar with is usually related to films and TV shows or positive and open-minded Instagram influencers. Naturally, this is the type of media that I decided to analyse and focus on this blog. Even though, I wanted to analyse some political articles as well, I think I should better do it in the future, once I have more knowledge of the politics and the awareness of the UK culture. One of the main reasons why I find it difficult to analyse the political articles is that I don’t always understand the used reference or other type of word-play in the text. Needless to say, I wouldn’t like to receive negative or aggressive comments about my posted content, especially if I misunderstood or analysed the article incorrectly. So, I think it would be better to focus on the content that I actually enjoy analysing: films and feminism in the media. Another thing that I haven’t really thought about before starting to write on this blog, is that some people might find my written posts or used terms offensive even though I’m trying to be as considerate as possible. I’ve realised that it’s better to be extra careful and double check the text before posting to make sure that I used the right pronouns and to make sure that I didn’t use any slurs or insults that I wasn’t aware of. That being said, this assignment was a good practice for the other future assignments and my future career, but I think it would be better for me to start to create the content online a bit later in the future when I have more awareness of the media analysis and the analysing techniques.  

Once upon a time, a few months ago, this blog began a journey starting with looking at some rune divination cards that had been sitting on my bookshelf for some years.

These cards were:

The Aquarian Rune Pack by Anthony Clark & Tony Wlllis (1987.)

Rune Magic Cards by Donald Tyson (1988)

Haindl Rune Oracle by Hermann Haindl (1997)

The Rune Mysteries by Nigel Jackson & Silver Ravenwolf (1996)

A descision was made at that time to develop blog content by sharing the rune art within these cards. All these images (except for Jackson & Ravenwolf) have been shared on previous blog entries and the missing rune art from the above list will be shared following this post if only to punctuate a hypothetical point in time. The sharing of rune card art images by social media was admittedly not something new though hopefully this blog may have helped facilitate improved quality images to Tumblr visitors / followers that have delved their way through gifts-of-heimdall-runes postings since February 2019.

Thus, one decision evolved into the subsequent numerous rune art entries which have scattered this blog. Granted a good chunk of this was due to the prior dedicated research of Krystina (who was thanked in my last blog interlude and again now). Krystina continues to post within a Polish tarot & divination forum site http://dobrytarot.pl/index.php

So more rune art will follow and to my followers: hang in there because there are over a hundred entries drafted waiting to be posted as of today (17th September 2019).

However, one deck needs to be revisited if only to correct my lack of knowledge when the art was originally posted. To date, the images have only received limited interest from being liked or shared on Tumblr though they symbolise a path of learning in rune art for myself within this blog thus representing learning in life. I believe Krystina was also very fond of them so that’s another good reason to share the images with an enhanced but more concise presentation compared with my last attempt in June 2019.