November 8, 2019
Producing the Wheel of the Year in Adobe Indesign
It’s that time of the year again! New Stones are Risen. Samhain has passed. Solstice and Yule are on the horizon. So once again the Board of Directors, and captive Art Director and Designer Kurt Griffith retire to their monks cells and engage in the annual ritual of cobbling together the Wheel of the Year for 2020. We have our pencils, calendars, event planners, astronomical tables, and even a crystal ball, bonds, tarot decks focused on eighteen months out.
So once again we are calling out to each and every one of you for your articles, prose, poetry, brilliant photographs to fill out yet another edition of the Wheel of the Year. People approach us and say, “I have this idea…. ” We have some news for you; you don’t need our permission to write an article. JUST WRITE and get it to us. Material that we have, we can review and choose to use. Stuff that we don’t have, however brilliant the idea, we can’t use!
So fire up your word processors, cue up Google docs, sharpen your pencils, flap your legal pads, or even dip your quills, or scrape your lamp black. If you have a creative impulse, do go right ahead and indulge it. Just get it to us. Don’t be too worried about your skill as a writer, our crew are pretty good editors, and with over twenty editions of the Wheel, we’ve gotten pretty experienced. We can help slap even a very rough draft into suitable prose for our pretty laid-back audience.
Looking for ideas? Did you see the Rainbow Bridge? We’re still paying for it! Did you have an uplifting or powerful experience at Four Quarters? Did you attend a Sweat Lodge? Did you walk the Labyrinth? Is there an aspect of ritual or ceremony, your tradition or spiritual path that you’d like to share? Have you a tale or take about Climate Change, Sustainability, Green Issues, the curve of Global Decline, the emerging Age of Limits? We’re interested.
When do we need it? Soonest is of course best, but for practical purposes, we’d like to have your material in hand no later than Yule. We try to get the Wheel into the mail out to Members by late Winter, and it takes time to produce and polish, spray ink on paper. Feel free to hit us up with any questions, ideas, or requests for guidance. Send material to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., or to the This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
We’re also looking for good, useful photography. We see people all over events with their smartphones out, some of you with nice cameras. If you’ve caught some good images, we’d love to have them not just for the Wheel of the Year, but also for our other outreach and publishing efforts, the website, our email newsletter, even however cautiously, social media. However, for print publication, we need full size/high resolution images. If you need some guidance on getting images to us, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
The Wheel of the Year is a member powered effort, and is more than just a calendar of events. The more Members contributing, the better and richer a publication it is, year after year.
Kurt Griffith
Board of Directors
Art Director, Wheel of the Year 2020
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