Finished The Path Of Least Resistance. Seems like the author kind of said what he had to say in the first half, and felt obliged to stretch the rest into a book to fit in about 3 more pages of pertinent examples throughout it. At some point I'll go back through and extract some relevant quotes from it, as a few caught my eye on the way past.
I'm still about halfway through Paul Rhys Mountfort's Norse Runes, stuck in a section that reads like a highly educational brick. I think I'm going to have to do some sort of project with them to synthesize the blocks of stories that flesh out each rune's nuances; perhaps designing a deck of cards of the runes would suit. I have his book on Ogam in the mail as well. I expect that doing anything useful with the Ogam will require a pretty serious exercise in comparative ethnobotany to figure out which trees in my region fill the roles for which its original trees were selected. Several important local trees are entirely missing from the ogam, and about half its trees are present only in as much as they've escaped from gardens over the years. Most interpretations of it that I've seen online use gorse, which is a noxious weed near my area so growing it on purpose would be problematic. I'll probably end up with 2 sets of it -- one "by the book", and one localized. The whole project is more about adding a more esoteric alphabets for encoding both phonetic and symbolic meaning in art projects anyways, so the fact that the ogam is also made of trees is what one might call a happy accident.
