Sunday, January 13, 2013

Happy Birthday, Domythic Bliss!


Today is a momentous occasion....Domythic Bliss is exactly one year old!  In some ways it's hard to believe it has already been a year.  In other ways, I can't believe we haven't been sharing together for far longer!

I feel incredibly blessed to have received such a wonderful response in the last year to this blog. I could go on and on about the warm welcome and sense of community I have received, but I think I've already done so in other posts, so I'll share a few Domythic cakes with you instead!

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To help celebrate our first year together, celebrating the Mythic Arts and their role in our daily lives and surroundings, I've asked a few special guests to share their thoughts....

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Domythic Bliss is a beautiful site, and has brought together a lot of artists and writers (both living and dead) that I love very much. Including you.

- Delia Sherman (Mythic fiction author whose novel The Freedom Maze is coming soon from Candlewick Press)

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So often the dramatic that attracts our attention is of the dark, the obscene, the bleak, or the sensational variety. If the whole world's a stage, it seems mostly to be stuck in the Jacobean mode, or maybe in Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol: big, splashy,  sordid, with plenty of screeching and a high body count. The media pounds us with ugliness. And, to be honest, there's plenty of ugliness to pound with.

But there is beauty here too, though it can seem elusive. I would say "beauty enough to combat the horror," but the kind of beauty I mean doesn't need a martial metaphor. It is more invasive, more insinuating, more subtle than that. It is the kind of beauty that illuminates you like sunlight, or draws you through a doorway into possibility, into starlight or the heart of a lily. Drama rages in this kind of beauty: fire and winter, wings and sly things, in the urgent act of creating, most painstakingly, pockets of reckless gorgeousness and banquets for the senses to revel in.

Domythic Bliss is one such doorway to beauty. It is a rabbit hole to Wonderland, a star chart to Neverland, and the white hart that leads you into Fairyland. I think its readers will emerge from the images and insights it offers with a sense of astonished enchantment, pervaded by beauty, and galvanized to scatter their own small splendors like breadcrumbs for the rest of us to follow. 

- C.S.E. Cooney (Mythic fiction author and poet)


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Domythic Bliss is always visually appealing. Add in the added bonus of varied and interesting content delivered in a likeable voice...well. really. What's not to like? Here's to many more years!

- Charles de Lint (World Fantasy Award-Winning Mythic Fiction author whose new book comes out in March)


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I and my husband, Charles de Lint thank Grace Nuth for giving us a year of beauty through her Domythic Bliss site. She has shown us places, art and gorgeous a way of living that is truly something to strive for. Through Domythic Bliss, magic graces our screens and we feel inspired by all that Grace and her readers share with us. It's a great big circle of deliciousness that nourishes the spirit. Thank you, Grace, and congratulations! The world is a far better place with Domythic Bliss in it.

- MaryAnn Harris (artist, musician, lovely wife of Charles de Lint)


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How can you not love a blog devoted to finding -- and creating -- moments of beauty and enchantment in the everyday world? Grace Nuth looks at the world with a true artist's eye, and with a wonder that comes through in every post on this charming, inspiring blog.

- Carolyn Turgeon (whose new book comes out in August!) 


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I have long thought of myths and fairy tales as maps—as collections of images, angles, and marvels that if arranged properly, might lead us home, or help us make a home anyplace we find ourselves. I feel the same way when I look at Grace Nuth's blog, Domythic Bliss, where she assembles and presents such excellent variations of wondrous things with generosity, good humor, and delight.

- Ari Berk  (Professor of folklore and mythology, and author of NIGHTSONG and The Undertaken Trilogy.  His new book comes out in February!)

21 comments:

  1. Happy birthday, and thanks for all the moments of magic you've inspired so far :-) Looking forwards to many more in the years ahead!

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  2. I am so glad to have discovered Domythic Bliss this year! I have enjoyed and been inspired by the content here and in the Facebook group, and look forward to all the magic yet to come!

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  3. Is it really only a year? How time flies when you're looking at Domythic interiors :)

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  4. I think you can add 'timeless' to your list of blog praise; I really thought I had been reading you much, much longer.

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  5. Congratulations, Grace, and many happy returns of the day! :) You're doing such a good work here, for your readers and the Mythic Arts community in general, helping bring a measure of beauty and enchantment to our little corner of the internet. I heartily look forward to watching this site continue to grow and develop in the year(s!) to come.

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  6. Ooh. Methinks I need to make you a birthday pressie....

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  7. SO sorry I didn't send a card in time - can I still have a piece of cake??

    Happy Belated - and much love,
    Ellen

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  8. Annie, Mary, bryony, FreeDragon, Samantha, Jennifer, Ellen, thank you all!

    Bryony, FreeDragon, indeed I can hardly believe it!

    Samantha, very kind of you! I am excited to see how it can expand this year.

    Jennifer, oooh! (clapping hands)

    Ellen, you are always welcome to cake and festivities at ANY party I ever throw. <3 Love to you!

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  9. Happy Birthday Domythic Bliss! And thank you so much Grace for this beautiful gift you share with the world, and for all the inspiration you have thus kindled in so many readers... Discovering your blog was one of the best things I did last year, in terms of the way it set me firmly on the "green road to fair elfland" in EVERY aspect of my life, not just my mind. Here's to living a fairytale life, in Domythic surroundings!

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  10. Congratulations! And many thanks for this gorgeous path through enchantment and wonders.

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  11. Congratulations, and warmest thanks for the inspiration you give. Here's to many more years of Domythic Bliss!

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  12. Happy birthday, Domythic Bliss! I can't believe it's really been a year! :)

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  13. Congratulations, and please keep the magic and enchantment coming!

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  14. Happy birthday, I have only just stumbled upon your blog in recent months, but I must say so far it has been an enriching experience.

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  15. Oh WOW! Happiest of Birthdays to you! How fabulous, love all the tributes, much deserved. And a wee thank you from me too, you have illuminated our little lives greatly. Minerva x

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  16. Thank you, Laura! It means a lot to me to see you be inspired by the blog! <3

    Lynn, Jody, Melissa, Carolee, Oldomen, Minerva, thank you all so much for adding your well-wishes here! <3

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  17. Happy birthday to Domythic Bliss. I'm so grateful that you are there, Grace, carrying the Mythic Arts flame. Long may it burn, and long may Domythic Bliss thrive!

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  18. Happy Blogaversary and what Enchanting Cakes to excite the Imagination!

    Blessings from the Arizona Desert... Dawn... The Bohemian

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  19. Thank you so much, Bohemian!

    Terri, your words mean so much to me as you know.

    Shveta, <3 <3

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  20. Dear Grace,

    Thank you so much for featuring my Gift for a Dragon on your charming and enchanting pages. I hope you will consider it as a birthday gift.

    If it pleases you to add a link under the video to my humble blog, I should be greatly honored.

    http://www.omniscrit.com

    May all your days be blessed and twice blessed and thrice blessed. :)

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