Imbolc\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Wild Moon<\/p>\n
Here’s a revelation it’s strange to have this late in life:\u00a0 I enjoy learning for its own sake.\u00a0 Now I knew that at one level or another before, it’s true, but here’s what I’ve just learned.\u00a0 After I finished my workout this evening, I went back to working on Latin translation.\u00a0 At first I approached the Latin like school, do the work, get it right, then do more work, get it right.\u00a0 So on.<\/p>\n
But tonight as I sat there puzzling out the meaning of the sentences and the word endings, I realized I was having fun.\u00a0 This was no longer a goal oriented, hoop-jumping exercise, but something I simply enjoyed.\u00a0 Like, I don’t know, playing checkers or basketball or chess or dancing.\u00a0 Strange, huh?<\/p>\n
Maybe it’s always been this way for me, I don’t know.\u00a0 It feels like a secret, something I shouldn’t tell, but there it is anyhow.\u00a0 At 63.\u00a0 There’s always something new around the corner.<\/p>\n
Kate and I had an African evening.\u00a0 We finished the first season of the HBO series, The First Ladies Detective Agency.\u00a0 We read all these quite a while ago.\u00a0 The casting for the series is spot on and seeing the Botswana setting makes the stories come alive even more strongly than in the books themselves.\u00a0 After we finished the last episode, we watched Duma, a story of a South African boy and a cheetah he raises from a cub.\u00a0 It has the usual boy reluctantly returns animal to the wild, the animal comes back for one last hug sort of plot line, but with some unusual depth added by his long journey from Capetown back into the bush with Duma, the cheetah and a man he meets in the bush.\u00a0 Both of them are well worth\u00a0 watching.\u00a0 Not my usual dark fare, but good anyhow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Imbolc\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Wild Moon Here’s a revelation it’s strange to have this late in life:\u00a0 I enjoy learning for its own sake.\u00a0 Now I knew that at one level or another before, it’s true, but here’s what I’ve just learned.\u00a0 After I finished my workout this evening, I went back to working on Latin translation.\u00a0 … Continue reading Whee!<\/span>