SFGate.com interview with Steve Georgiou, author of The Way of the Dreamcatcher, on his spirituality and on his mentor Robert Lax, the poet-hermit. URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/g/a/2005/02/15/findrelig.DTL. See also the Hermitary article on Robert Lax.
Hermit image in tarot
“Iconology of the Hermit Cards” is an article by Dr. Robert O’Neill that traces the depiction of the hermit in the tarot as preliminary to identifying its meaning. URL: http://att.tarot.com/about-tarot/library/boneill/hermit.
Hermits in Art: German print
In the picture collection of the New York Public Library is a German-language print: a juvenile rhyme about the owl, cleverly depicted in the picture as a hermit with monkish habit and staff, emerging from his hermitage. URL: http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/browseresults.cfm?&trg=3&name=NBott%2C%20C%2E&strucID=459950&pstrucid=409758&title=Vom%20Uhu%2E&dstart=1.
Hermits portrayed
Two items about hermits portrayed in film and theater:
1. Lugger the 18th-century hermit who lived in a cave in Cornwall, England, is portrayed in a stage play; URL: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cornwall/3922693.stm.
2. Robert Harrill, the Fort Fisher hermit of North Carolina, is portrayed in a documentary film. URLs: http://www.shelbystar.com/portal/ASP/article.asp?ID=10493; http://www.cucalorus.org/film_detail.asp?id=261 and http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/local/states/
north_carolina/counties/gaston/9222304.htm?1c. For more about the Fort Fisher Hermit see our original note for July 30, 2003 (URL: http://www.hermitary.com/around/archives/000094.html).
Hermits in Art: Chiang Chao-shen
A modern Taiwanese artist depicts a classic Chinese hermit theme: the hermit angler (in “Hermit Angler on Clear Waters”), where the solitude of the little craft and its occupant in vast waters represents self and universe. URL: http://www.npm.gov.tw/eng91/exh/e_jiang9104/e_01.htm.