Symbolism Blog Posts

This Special Behind The Scenes post finishes a series devoted to the request of Jane Watson for my views on various symbols in Notes from An Alien <— Grab a free copy :-) Reminder: You can ask me Any questions about the book in Any of these...

This is the first special Friday Behind The Scenes post that will have “severe” spoilers—excerpts from the novel. Grab a free copy—to read before your read this post and to use to find the excerpts in the novel. If you’r...

Should writers feel confident enough in their work to welcome differing interpretations of its meaning? I’m almost tempted to stop writing and ask for your answers in the Comments… But, this is a Friday post—part of the series Behin...

Should writers feel confident enough in their work to welcome differing interpretations of its meaning? I’m almost tempted to stop writing and ask for your answers in the Comments… But, this is a Friday post—part of the series Behin...

This post is part of the new Friday series: Behind The Scenes of the story Notes from An Alien. If you want to avoid having “spoilers” intrude on your enjoyment of the book, just grab a free copy and read it before you dive deeply into this serie...

I admit, the title of this blog post is going to seem quite strange.  Many people have either heard about “The Wizard of OZ” or have seen the 1939 movie. Not much thought is put into it though. I’ll explain how this means something...

by Julia Phillips Smith 1 - Rather than making resolutions, I find a similar but more powerful way of meeting the new year is to name the year. This tradition is observed by my writer friends Chris Szego and Charlene Roberts from Toro...

Christian symbolism in Western Painting...

Maitreya is sometimes represented seated on a throne Western-style, and venerated both in Mahayana and non-Mahayana Buddhism. Some have speculated that inspiration for Maitreya may have come from the ancient Indo-Iranian deity Mithra.

US MARINES DOES IT AGAIN - POSES WITH NAZI SYMBOLS - I'M SORRY THERE ARE 2 SIDES TO THIS...

The fact that the beast comes out from the sea indicates that he is a Gentile, for the sea of humanity is involved as his source...

The Halloween OwlBy Elvira Rosemarie Mesiona One Halloween night, a young owl flew gently and quietly into a far away town surrounded by oak trees. He landed on an old sleeping tree. It was cold, dark and windy and the tree was startled by the hootin...