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Thursday (Jupiter's Day), June 4, 2009

Not Scholarly?

I discovered a nice little delightful astrology blog today... the blog's mistress had copied and pasted my article on Mercury retrograde into her blog.

While, for many reasons, I prefer that folks not do that sort of thing; she, however, had done the good karma thing of giving me credit and a link.

Following my article, she then suggested reading another, "more scholarly" article on the subject of Mercury retrograde.

I was devastated... not scholarly? Not scholarly! My article not scholarly!

According to Merriam-Webster Online: "characteristic of, or suitable to learned persons" Hmph...

My article on Mercury retrograde quotes: an ancient Roman maxim, the authors Arianna Stassinopoulos (Huffington), psychologist Dr Murray Stein PhD, psychologist Dr Jean Bolen PhD, and astrologer Richard Idemon. The article then goes on to discuss the weighty psychological concept of "honoring the gods" propounded by the esteemed Swiss psychiatrist and founder of Analytical Psychology, Dr Carl G Jung MD... and yet my article is not scholarly?

What's a guy gotta do?

Granted... I do attempt to piece together a good many of my astrological diatribes in such a way that they might be construed as being somewhat humorous and/or entertaining... but not scholarly?

Then I went on to read the (dry, dull and incredibly tedious) article that she had considered to be more scholarly... and so I think I'm becoming more and more comfortable with the misnomer that my articles are not "scholarly"...

My best and "most scholarly" professors were those rare breed capable of synthesizing pedagogical competence with academic expertise. Yep... they were able to bring life, authenticity, curiosity, and imagination to the lecture hall...

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