Imbolc Valentine Moon Today, … Continue reading
Fall Waxing Autumn Moon Spiritual Resources for Humanists. Been thinking about this from an odd perspective. Humanism is often characterized as anti- or post-Christian. It is, of course, easy to see why this should be so in such Christian marinated … Continue reading
Fall Waning Harvest Moon Prepping for a presentation on Spiritual Resources for Humanists. Reading books, articles, letting ideas slip past as I get ready to sleep, keeping my antennae out for what feeds me now. The book I mentioned before, … Continue reading
Lughnasa Waning Harvest Moon In preparation for my presentation, Spiritual Resources for Humanists, I have come across two mentions of a critique of Enlightenment thought’s emphasis on individualism. In one instance the critique compares Western individualism with the more integrated … Continue reading
Lughnasa Waning Honey Extraction Moon More butting my head against a language that any 4 year old in ancient Rome could speak and a reasonably intelligent 5 year old could read. I guess there is a plateau affect here and … Continue reading
Samhain Waxing Moon of the Winter Solstice Worked on learning the ablative absolute and the passive periphrastic. This last one is also the name of a colon problem. Not really. But this is strange about it, periphrastic is a latin … Continue reading
Lughnasa Waxing Harvest Moon Another day spent happily with my nose in The Contested Enlightenment, parsing out threads of intellectual history that I can then weave together into a new tale, one that clarifies liberalism in the United States today … Continue reading
85 bar falls 29.79 3mph NE dew-point 55 Summer, hot and unpleasant Waxing Gibbous Thunder Moon The Woodrow Wilson Quarterly has an interesting article titled, The Burden of the Humanities. I want to add a cadenza, a riff of my … Continue reading