Into the Fray
As part of a U.S. Foreign Service family, I’ve been around the world a little. It’s a beautiful, terrible place. The Pacific Ocean, for example, is breathtaking . . . and breath-taking, as in it could kill you, and in so many different ways. Experiencing the culture of the Marshall Islands was so strikingly eye-opening that I think I might spend the rest of my life trying to describe what I saw and heard.
Not everyone has the opportunity to go to some of these places—I barely made it myself to Nan Madol, the sacred city of ruins on the island of Pohnpei, on account of dengue fever—but, as C.S. Lewis said, “In reading great literature I become a thousand men [and women!] and yet remain myself . . . in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do” (An Experiment in Criticism, 140).
I am currently pursuing an MFA in Writing and Literature from Bennington College to attempt to describe some of the things I have seen. I also love physics and science writing, surrealist and experimental stuff.
I currently edit and publish science articles for Atomium Culture and edit graduate textbooks on computer programming and engineering for Taylor & Francis/CRC Press, and I help others share their previously unheard voices through The Unbound Bookmaker Project. I now add my voice to the fray.
P.S. Zvirzdin is pronounced zŭh-VUR-zdĭn, from husband's emigrating great-grandpa from Lithuania. Name supposedly means "gravel" because his family lived by some gravel. They were geese herders (in the gravel?).
Not everyone has the opportunity to go to some of these places—I barely made it myself to Nan Madol, the sacred city of ruins on the island of Pohnpei, on account of dengue fever—but, as C.S. Lewis said, “In reading great literature I become a thousand men [and women!] and yet remain myself . . . in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do” (An Experiment in Criticism, 140).
I am currently pursuing an MFA in Writing and Literature from Bennington College to attempt to describe some of the things I have seen. I also love physics and science writing, surrealist and experimental stuff.
I currently edit and publish science articles for Atomium Culture and edit graduate textbooks on computer programming and engineering for Taylor & Francis/CRC Press, and I help others share their previously unheard voices through The Unbound Bookmaker Project. I now add my voice to the fray.
P.S. Zvirzdin is pronounced zŭh-VUR-zdĭn, from husband's emigrating great-grandpa from Lithuania. Name supposedly means "gravel" because his family lived by some gravel. They were geese herders (in the gravel?).
