Imbolc Valentine Moon Today, … Continue reading
Beltane Waning Last Frost Moon On a pile of essays, yet unread, sits one at the top, “The Great River of the Classics”, by Camille Paglia. She is my heroine, an outspoken advocate for the content of the humanities, the … Continue reading
Fall Waxing Harvest Moon With Latin, the Baroque and a sermon on the future of liberal thought all coming up this week and the next, plus the horticultural fall chores: plant bulbs, clean up, harvest the last of the vegetable … Continue reading
Imbolc Waning Cold Moon “It is clear Charles, you know where you are going, and knowledge is the fuel.” a fellow Woolly Have you ever heard of the Johari window? Here’s a graphic that illustrates it. The white or open … Continue reading
Winter Waxing Wild Moon I reproduce part of a David Brooks column here because it relates to the humanities thread I began a few posts ago. He seems to counterpoise the liberal education as defined by Harvard against the institutional … 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