A ghostly clawed hand suddenly emerges from a flurry of leaves, grasping for the viewer.

Wraith Glade

The Intersection of Creativity, Nature, and the Mind

My Creations (#)

This is where I put most of my creative work when I want to publish it and share it with you! If you want something fun or useful (and created directly by me) then the My Creations page is where you can go to download it! This makes the My Creations page perhaps the most important subpage on this website, though there is still good value on many of the other pages. If you only visit one page on this website then visit this one. Everything on it is designed to be genuinely fun or useful and polished enough to be worth publishing.

However, do keep in mind this is only a small subset of what I've created over my lifespan. I add things to this website one brick at a time and only when the moment feels right and so it'll take a while for the amount of things to grow.

Journal & Changelog (#)

Previously known as the "detailed website history" page before the big website reorganization, this page now serves as both my own personal miniature journal and as this website's changelog (i.e. precisely detailed website history). Here's where you can find short (often daily) updates on what I'm doing or thinking and also commentary on what I've changed on the site on any given day. This is a very useful page for figuring out what new stuff may have been put onto the site since your last visit! It could save you a lot of time!

This kind of subpage is also sometimes referred to variously as a "log", "web log" (from which the word "blog" is derived), "mini blog", "micro blog", "diary", "chronicle", "site history", or "status update page", among other possible terms. The subtleties of the meanings and connotations of these terms vary. However, in the case of my log page here it is a hybrid of a short-form personal blog (not a "full" blog) and the site's changelog, but without any of the social media components that may be associated with the terms "mini blog" or "micro blog". This is an old school log. First principles guide me, not contrivances. 🌱🏫📜

About Site (#)

If you want to find out what this website is intended to be and to become, including the underlying philosophy and hints as to what direction the site is going to move in and what kind of items will be added to it over time, then this page will give you an overview of that.

Especially salient aspects of the initial inspiration and impetus that lead to the founding of the website are also described on this page, like a kind of textual memorial. 📷🗿

About Me (#)

This is one place you can go to read a brief overview of what I'm interested in and what my background is. Alternatively, exploring my website is another way to get a sense of what I'm into and what kind of person I am. In fact, exploring the website may be better because doing so is more experiential and more directly embodies my thoughts and actions.

Contact Info (#)

If you would like to get in touch with me by sending me a message, such as sharing your thoughts and support for any of my work or musings, then this page will tell you how. I'm generally pretty open and will respond to anything constructive, though it can take me a while sometimes since I am often getting "sucked down rabbit holes" (as the saying goes).

I want a healthy community of fellow creatives and so I've been tentatively expanding my presence into more communities that seem to at least partly overlap my interests.

Policies (#)

This is where you can find legal formalities and other information about this website's policies, such as concerning intellectual property and privacy.

Downloads (#)

The downloads page is intended to contain a simple list of all directly downloadable files on this website (besides the site itself of course). Downloadable files should be assumed to have proprietary or restricted licenses unless stated otherwise somewhere.

Site Map (#)

This page offers an alternative way of navigating the browsable pages of this site. It lists the pages of this site alphabetically and non-hierarchically instead of categorically and/or hierarchically. It can be thought of as the opposite of the downloads page, like yin and yang.

Webring Memberships (#)

A webring is a simple network of cooperating websites that link to each other via "previous" and "next" links to the other sites in the webring, hence creating a kind of ring-like linked structure and hence the name. Webrings are perhaps the oldest form of web community!

Webrings are also analogous to linked list data structures from computer science.

Such networks serve primarily as a way for independent websites to mutually support each others visibility (to avoid isolation) and also to create a strong community.

The webrings that I am a member of (or in the process of joining) are listed below:

Charity Memberships (#)

Making a positive difference in the world matters a lot to me, and thus I make sure to donate on a monthly basis to at least one reputable charity whose cause I believe in.

In these respects, among the foremost of my concerns are protecting nature (in all its myriad and wondrous forms — but especially forests) and protecting human freedom (of all kinds — whether creative, intellectual, or personal). No paradise can be built without both nature and freedom. The road to a better future is always paved by ample goodwill.

Every step in a journey is an end of itself. That is crucial to what it means to be good. Benevolence is its own reward and magnanimity is the path to a better future for all.

No man is an island. Everything is interconnected. Everything matters. Everything ripples and echoes. All of life is a chain of dominoes. The butterfly flaps its wings and a hurricane is born a hundred years from now... and wouldn't be otherwise (see chaos theory).

As such, among my many other endeavors, I am currently a donating member of the National Forest Foundation and I link to them below so that anyone else interested in preserving and restoring the natural world for the future may also consider doing so.

An elegant stylized logo for a reputable forest preservation and restoration charity organization named The National Forest Foundation.

NOTE: If anything on one of my pages (or anyone else's!) ever appears strangely styled or like it has broken formatting then try pressing Ctrl + F5.

This (hopefully) performs a "hard refresh" for the page and thereby clears false cached data about that page on your browser that may result in display errors.

It can also help when a page has been updated but you still can't see the updates.

The most foolproof way to fix such problems though is to clear all cache and browsing history for the entire site. On Firefox, this can be done by (1) opening the history management window, (2) finding any entry where you tried to access the site, and (3) right clicking and selecting "Forget This Site".

Doing so may be necessary when a site has changed its web host or has made other substantial changes to its underlying structure, behavior, or location.