My father had a love of carpentry. Cabinets, bookshelves, tables, chests — it didn’t matter. If it involved woodworking, he was interested. He was very keen on getting quality cuts of wood and the best finishing he could afford. He often said, “No amount of varnish ever fixed a rotten board.” And his Depression-era truth still stands today.
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Philology concerns the reading, transmission, interpretation, and afterlife of texts. It gathers notes on words, names, translations, fragments, documents, variant readings, inherited traditions, and the unstable histories through which meaning survives or changes, including mythic or cryptic texts.
Anomalology is the careful study of anomalous experience: experiences that resist easy explanation, and the evidence, language, memory, cultural context, and competing interpretations through which they are understood.
Intermundia is testimony from a life between worlds: reflections on liminality as it is lived rather than solved. It gathers accounts of estrangement, grief, memory, wonder, spiritual dislocation, ordinary endurance, and the persistent work of making meaning in an unresolved place.
Excultio is commentary on the world and its affairs: reflections on things in and of the world — culture, currents, customs, institutions, the day's matters — examined in my own way. It is critique and observation of the ordinary order of things: its spectacles and scripts, its appetites and ideals, its manners and markets, its functions and failures, and whatever else under the sun invites weighing.