On March 14th, 2009, Elise Matthesen posted a picture of her evocatively titled pendant “Nine Things About Oracles.”
The next day, Jo Walton came along with a poem and ripped things wide open. A list by Alter S. Reiss slotted into place next, followed quickly by a snatch of verse by Livejournal-user noveldevice.
The rest, as they say, is explosive history: look at that link and you’ll see Nine Nines (plus more!) of word-art and image-art inspired by “Nine Things About Oracles.”
The collection is amazing. Breath-taking. Memery at its finest – a dizzying explosion of creativity and celebration.
You know I, especially with my interstitial heart, could not resist the lovely pendant’s evocative title or frenzy of community-promoted art.
And so I give you:
I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed creating it. Make sure you read what the Oracle’s written on the flip side of the postcards!
For those interested in actual Oracular postcards for personal use, I am working on making those a reality.
Also, there’s a twitch in my photography finger that needs working out, so there may be Postcards from a Traveling Oracle: To Nine Sisters, from Atlanta coming soon. (Or perhaps she’ll do a different number entirely. Who can tell, with oracles?)
(Besides themselves, of course.)
