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I've (re)started this Tumblr out of my desire to have a place to explore questions about storytelling. Originally I had thought it would be a place where I would pick a single question and explore it over a set period of time (1 month, 3 months, 6 months...). The problem was settling on a question!

The first one I thought of doing was something like "what makes a good adaptation?" There's no end of material here. The discussion of film adaptations alone could keep me busy for weeks. The problem--there's always a problem--was that our family is beginning a pretty busy period of our lives: six credits of coursework for me*, three for Siobhan**, a new baby on the way, a toddler who gets more precocious every day***, a possible move, a possible job search...it didn't seem like a good time to take on another focused project. So I looked at this idea again, and unfocused it.

It'll be a little more random. It's a place to hang things that catch my eye, first about re-storytelling, adaption and translation. What it'll become, I don't know. But welcome to this!

*Three of these credits are from a seminar named "The Sacramentality of Beauty in Arts and Literature". Maybe for a while this Tumblr will just be a place where I can process everything stemming from that unwieldy title.

**Siobhan's course has the much more inviting name, "Books, Children, and God". Maybe I'll steal material from our conversations and post it here.