The End of the Beginning
Spring New (Planting) Moon The story of the golden … Continue reading
Tag Archives: Ovid
In A Dark Wood Wandering
Spring … Continue reading
And Jazz Saxophone after it all
Imbolc Valentine Moon Here we go. A perfect day. Revising … Continue reading
Posted in Art and Culture, Cinema and Television, Family, Latin, Translating Metamorphoses, Writing
Tagged Kate, Ovid, pre-Raphaelites, Skyfall
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Plateaus
Imbolc Valentine Moon After … Continue reading
Posted in Latin, Translating Metamorphoses
Tagged Anderson, hermeneutics, Metamorphoses, Ovid, Perseus, translation, Wheelock
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A Comment-ary
Spring New Beltane Moon An interesting proposition. Greg, … Continue reading
A Morning During Our Long November
Winter First Moon of the New Year Our long November continues. Patchy snow, mostly bare ground and leafless trees. Occasional sunshine, like today, otherwise gloomy and gray. … Continue reading
Posted in Humanities, Literature, Myth and Story, Weather +Climate, Writing
Tagged Blue Cloud, Kate, Metamorphoses, novel, Ovid, Penny
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On Moving Toward Doing the Work Only I Can Do
Winter First Moon of the New Year Spent yesterday shifting to my new work schedule. A couple of hours on Ovid, plus analyzing some of Caesar’s … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, Art and Culture, Bees, Commentary on Religion, Faith and Spirituality, Garden, Great Wheel, Great Work, Humanities, Myth and Story, Retirement, Writing
Tagged novels, Ovid, reimagining, Self, Tailte
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How the New Year Might Look
Winter First Moon of the New Year At an inflection point with the Latin. Either I keep the pace … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, Art and Culture, Commentary on Religion, Faith and Spirituality, Garden, Great Wheel, Great Work, Humanities, Myth and Story, Politics, Sierra Club, Writing
Tagged Latin, Ovid, Reimagining faith, Tailte
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Ovid. Again.
Winter First Moon of the New Year An Ovidian morning. Holding words, conjugations, meanings, clause types, prepositions and adverbs in the head while whirling them around … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, Humanities, Literature, Myth and Story
Tagged Latin, Ovid, translation
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More Fun With Ovid
Lughnasa Waning Harvest Moon More fun with Ovid. The curtain has begun to roll back a bit more. Many of my friends have second and third languages, but until now I only had the one. A bit of French. A … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, Humanities, Literature, Myth and Story
Tagged craft, individualism, Ovid, Rome, skill, translation
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