Readings & Videos
Pilgrimage
Following the Story Back
Jan. 6, 2024, 3:20 p.m. • Ross Laird
Excerpted from A Stone's Throw: The Enduring Nature of Myth , by Ross Laird Martin Nordegg, the Jewish nomad who founded the mountain town in which my wife’s parents grew up, was led t...
Homecoming
Following the Story Back
Jan. 6, 2024, 3:20 p.m. • Ross Laird
Excerpted from A Stone's Throw: The Enduring Nature of Myth , by Ross Laird The snow line is high in the alpine; lower down, the terrain is wet and dark. Two feet of snow fell in the v...
First Steps with Wagtail
Basic Setup & Account Management
Jan. 9, 2024, 8:10 p.m. • Ross Laird
First things first: load this page on a computer. If you are on a phone, the steps described in the video below will still work, but they will be much easier and faster on a computer. Use whichever...
Creating Content
Adding and Editing a Page
Jan. 9, 2024, 8:10 p.m. • Ross Laird
Wagtail is a digital publishing platform built with modern tools and technologies (such as Django and Python ). You don't need to know anything about these. As a contributor to the Lab, you...
Submitting a Project for Review
Steps and Tasks
Jan. 9, 2024, 8:10 p.m. • Ross Laird
How to Submit a Project Create a page. Review this page to see the steps for creating a page. Add text, images, links, and perhaps other items (such as videos) to your page. Review the page con...
Should You Publish Your Page?
Considerations and Cautions
Jan. 9, 2024, 8:10 p.m. • Ross Laird
Publishing on the web is the primary way in which modern writers begin their careers. It’s a normal and essential part of the writer’s process and toolkit. Websites, blogs, and social media posting...
Big Problems: Small Wonder
Wandering, Wonder, and Creative Pathways
June 18, 2021, 8:54 p.m. • Ross Laird
Got a minute? Try this small but illuminating experiment. Above is an image of the Milky Way Galaxy. Focus your attention on this image for one minute. Don’t do anything other than look at the imag...