A Bit About This Journal

Please think of this online journal as a practice tablet. A place for me to develop communication skills as I work on honing narrative.

I have a lot of different areas of interests and find it difficult to keep my journals organized. PossumHaw is an attempt to clear the clutter and serve as a catchall medium for my personal reflections; A place to bring together a disparate collection of thoughts and interests.

I welcome thoughts and comments.

Thursday, July 19, 2012

July blooming roadside wildflowers: Bandy Road

Lance-leaved Coreopsis (Coreopsis lanceolata)

Black Eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta)*
and Prairie Fleabane (Erigeron strigosus)


Cone Flower or Browneyed Susan
(Rudbeckia grandflora)

Small-headed Sunflower (Helianthus microcephalus)




Northern Dewberry (Rubrus flagellaris)
Handsome Harry (Rhexia virginica)



Giant Iron Weed (Vernonia gigantea)

Giant Iron Weed.  It is big and it is strong!  
About the only thing growing well in this dry spell.






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About Me

The Eastern Ouachitas
Perhaps it is an Arkansas thing, but I grew up listening to story tellers... everyone seemed to have a nack for telling tales, not faerie-tales or yarns, but stories based on biography, familial history and area lore. I find today that I seem to fall back on 'the story' to convey concepts and thoughts that I have on just about every subject -perhaps to a fault. But the further along this journey I go the more I see the narrative utilized in the broader world of marketing, advertising, and politics. Engaging in or even controlling the narrative seems to be the way we function as a community. I am reminded of something I read from Bruce Chatwan, The Songlines, perhaps, where he spoke of the Songline as a tool for conveying one's personal story along with the spiritual story of creation. The Story is a tool used by society to explain where we are and how we got here. It is used to help us understand who we are and why. It is also a weapon used by aggressors and the aggrieved to delineate the "Us from Them". This was a poingant concept which Chatwin touched upon (or perhaps someone he was writing about touched on...) which was reinforced for me in reading Joseph Campbell.