FENG SHUI TIP #280:
“One of the most common sources of stagnant chi in an environment is an item many people can hardly bear to part with: BOOKS.
Books often take up quite a bit more space energetically than their small physical size might indicate — packed as they are with stories,
wisdom, innovation and emotion. Like other concentrated forms of energy (such as money, blood or oxygen) books can be tremendously life-giving when they are in circulation and serving a purpose. When circulation becomes blocked, serious problems can ensue.
From time to time, it’s useful to take a tour of the books in your home and office: Are there any books that have not been used or touched in quite some time? Books you’ve never even read, and probably never will? Are
there books on your shelves that are intrinsically connected to thought patterns and emotions you have long since left behind?
It is powerful to surround yourself with books that are genuinely relevant to your own life and life intentions in the present moment. When people purge a large quantity of books from their space, it often produces an immediate boost in creativity and/or prosperity. This is
because anytime you release a quantity of congested, thick or stagnant energy, it creates space for new opportunities and possibilities to flow into your life.
An added benefit is that after editing your collection, you will be able to arrange the remaining books in a more beautiful and harmonious manner.
(from Tranquil Spaces via Lorraine Olley)
HPS up and running
The Historical Printing Studio is officially opened and ready for class sessions, tutorials and student project production. Larry Raid will be scheduled for his fourth two-day tutorial on the UICB Linotype during next spring semester. There are various prospects for the HPS. For starters, the UICB is the only university based book studies program with a working Linotype machine and, just as importantly, an expert instructor on Linotype setting and casting.
This 20th century technology for the production of books and daily newspapers has relevance not only to book history and book art students, but also to students in journalism and communication studies. The Linotype will also play into UICB projects including the current project in book writing and book vending now underway by Emily Martin. Emilyís project even opens the way to a genre of ìretro-zinesî in emulation of the traditions of Mexican street printing and the domain of comic books. Of course, the Historical Printing Studio also bolsters our UICB core discipline in letterpress crafts.