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You can surf my
site, starting with this link, or the links to the right, and see where
they
lead,
or you can use an IMAGE MAP
of the site to pick and choose where you want to go.
www.granpawayne.com is not a
commercial site even though it has the .com ending. I chose
the .com for this site as a literary device, making the
address "catchy" and easier to remember. It is a personal site that I
have
created for myself and it contains, among other things, my unpublished
manuscripts and my digital graphics.
"granpawayne.com" has now become my “nom de
plume”, my pen name, or I should say my keyboard name, or better
still my “nom de clavier”.
I like that: “nom de clavier”.
granpawayne is my web name. This then is web literature or web
lit.
This is e-literature. I am e-literate, and I am creating e-lit.
Now that I have "quit my day job," i.e. retired from John Abbott
College I have more time to pursue the Arts and Letters.
I've been teaching for almost 39 years, 33 of them at John
Abbott College. The courses I was teaching at JAC were in philosophy,
humanities, and religious studies.
I was a teaching philosopher not an academic one.
This
flowed out of my philosophical approach to my personal life and thus to
my work as a teacher. At the college, there was no time made available
for academic research, though there was some time available, if the
request was approved, for the study of teaching methods.
This personal rather than academic approach to philosophy
began during my life as a seminarian (preparing to be a
priest) and a monk back in the early sixties. You can read about it in
my
unpublished manuscript Sketches for a
Manuscript.
It contains a series of sketches written in my
early twenties. They were supposed to turn into a book entitled, "The
Young Dead." A book about the fear of ending up stuck in the rat
race.
I am also very involved in exploring the creative and
intuitive
with the plastic arts as well. Drawing, works on paper with oil
pastels,
and carvings in wood and stone are among my interests. Now, I am
working with the computer. There are examples below of simple
animations that I have done. Tai Chi Chuan
Wink* Wink*
Answer me a riddle.
“What does a mirror look like?”
Send
your
answers.
I'll post the different responses at the Mirrors page on this
site.
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