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.

Friday, July 20, 2012

New York Times, Drought's Foodprint

New York Times article on footprint of drought.   After I made my post yesterday, I found this interesting article in the Times that tracks drought over the last century or so.  Great graphics.
The link is here:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/07/20/us/drought-footprint.html?smid=pl-share


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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.