An Old Idea Whose Time Has Come

Spring                                                                           Bloodroot Moon In May some docent friends from the class of 2005, a rowdy class and proud […]

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Exegesis and Hermeneutics

Lughnasa                                              Waning Harvest Moon “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” – Aristotle While the empirical method, the theory of falsifiability and scientific rigor make it an article of faith that scientists will entertain thoughts with which they may not agree, it is even […]

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Text, Reader, Learning

Lughnasa                                                                              Waning Honey Extraction Moon Been feelin’ tired, a bit lowdown.  Got a good nap this afternoon and better. Latin today was a bit more encouraging than I had anticipated.  My translation was not so far off, I hadn’t pursued sentence and clause construction quite as diligently as would have been good, but I had […]

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