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The Gleewoman's Notes

The Gleewoman's Notes

Welcome to the weblog of writer, artist and naturalist Sylvia Victor Linsteadt, author of Tatterdemalion (Unbound, 2017), The Lost Worlds of the Bay Area (Heyday, 2017), The Wonderments of the East Bay (Heyday, 2014), and creatrix of all stories associated with Wild Talewort. For Sylvia's official website and a full listing of her work, classes and events, follow the link below!


A Note About the Name: "Gleeman" is the Old English word for a minstrel or a bard, the wandering, wild-hemmed sort who ambled from town to town with stories and songs in his pockets to share in exchange for bed and food and wine. The "glee" part of the word originally meant entertainment and mirth inspired by music, connected to the Old Norse gly for joy, which had its feet in the words for shining, smooth and radiant. I've taken some liberties with the word, feminizing it in a way that makes sense to me. So here you will find my notes and musings about words, tales, old myths, plants, animals, stones, skies, languages, human cultures, new dreams, handcrafts—all the stuff of old minstrel tales— and how we might re-story our relationship to this fraught and beautiful world through old ways and old magics.

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All Writing, Painting and Photography on this Weblog Copyright © Sylvia Linsteadt, 2012-2017, unless otherwise noted.
All Rights Reserved.

Beautiful Pieces of Wordsmithing

  • Alias Grace, by Margaret Atwood
  • Angle of Repose, by Wallace Stegner
  • Arctic Dreams, by Barry Lopez
  • Ceremony, by Leslie Marmon Silko
  • Cloud & Ashes, by Greer Gilman
  • Corrag, by Susan Fletcher
  • Engine Summer, by John Crowley
  • Gwinna, by Barbara Helen Berger
  • Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brönte
  • Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, by Susanna Clarke
  • Labyrinths, by Jorge Luis Borges
  • Nights at the Circus, by Angela Carter
  • The Antelope Wife, by Louise Erdrich
  • The Castle of Crossed Destinies, by Italo Calvino
  • The Farming of Bones, by Edwidge Danticat
  • The Folk Keeper, by Franny Billingsley
  • The Hashish Man and Other Stories, by Lord Dunsany
  • The Hummingbird's Daughter, by Luis Alberto Urrea
  • The Mabinogion Tetralogy, by Evangeline Walton
  • The Old Wives' Fairy Tale Book, by Angela Carter
  • The Orphan's Tales, by Catherynne Valente
  • The Practice of the Wild, by Gary Snyder
  • The Spell of the Sensuous, by David Abram
  • The Stone Book Quartet, by Alan Garner
  • The Tender Carnivore and the Sacred Game, by Paul Shepard
  • Tracks, by Louise Erdrich
  • What the Bee Knows, by P.L. Travers
  • Wise Child, by Monica Furlong

Online Tale-Tellers, Makers and Sowers of Beautiful Seeds

  • A Walk Around Britain
  • AMBATALIA
  • Anthropogen
  • Between the Woods and the Waters
  • Bird Language
  • Bovine Bakery
  • Catherynne M. Valente
  • Catscapes
  • Cauldrons & Crockpots
  • Ecotone Threads
  • Faun Fables
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  • Foret Into Fibers
  • Gary Snyder
  • Gate City Gardener
  • Goblin Fruit
  • Green Man Ramblings
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  • Heyday
  • Honey Grove Farm
  • India Flint
  • Karen Smidth
  • Mariee Sioux
  • Mountain Rose Herbs
  • One Willow Apothecaries
  • Orion Magazine
  • Paleotechnics
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  • Regenerative Design Institute
  • River of Words
  • Scott Davidson
  • Sparsely Sage and Timely
  • Spirit Cloth
  • SurLaLune Fairytales
  • Terri Windling's Drawing Board
  • The Alliance for Wild Ethics
  • The Autumn People
  • The Dark Mountain Project
  • The Hermitage
  • The Journal of Mythic Arts
  • The Medicine Woman's Roots
  • The Point Reyes Tracking School
  • Tom Killion Woodcut Prints
  • Woodbird
  • Woolgathering and Wildcrafting

Favorite Poems made of Blood and Bone and Root

  • 9.
  • A Dream Before Sleep
  • A Lemon
  • Ark
  • Captivity
  • Dried Milkweed Pods
  • Fox
  • In Country Sleep
  • Kindness
  • Last Gods
  • Meditation at Lagunitas
  • Negotiations with a Volcano
  • Palo Alto: The Marshes
  • Saint Francis and the Sow
  • The Bath
  • The Bear
  • The Seven Devils of Central California
  • The Summer Day
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