Spring Waxing Bee Hiving Moon By chance I had a sculpture tour today and went to a presentation by Steve Tobin at the Arboretum tonight. He is the sculptor of the new steel roots works now on display there. He said his ambition lies outside time and culture; his works, he hopes, will work in […]
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Spring Waxing Bee Hiving Moon Played space invaders again this morning. My ophthalmologist insists on calling it a visual field. It tests peripheral vision, a clue to advancing glaucoma. I have already been treated with laser holes for narrow angle glaucoma, but now, in a not surprising development, my pressures have inched up past high […]
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Higher Education Does Not Need The Humanities. But, We Do.
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 deposit of art, music, literature and theater that flows from Western civilization’s beginnings in the […]
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