Spring\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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Awakening Moon<\/p>\n
The weather has turned cooler and the sky gray.<\/p>\n
I’m proud to report that I have almost completed translating my first four lines of Ovid’s Metamorphoses.\u00a0 Of course, there are thousands of lines in the complete work and my translation is far from poetic, but this journey is underway.\u00a0 When I feel a bit more comfortable with it, I’ll post it.\u00a0 In fact, I’ll post the whole thing in progress on its own page.<\/p>\n
Today is the birthday of cybermage, William Schmidt, ex-Jesuit and sheepshead connoisseur,\u00a0 a combination of attributes that makes him in turn interesting, resourceful and a card shark.<\/p>\n
For Mammoths reading this, I have added the Wandervogel entry to my webpage about Nick.<\/p>\n
(Pygmalion by Gerome)<\/p>\n
Among other top news items today:\u00a0 Madonna laid a brick (in an African orphanage) and McNabb held up a Redskins jersey while Tiger was honest in a press conference and earned credit for it.\u00a0\u00a0 Meanwhile back in the real world health care reform continues to make news as does a 7.2 earthquake that struck southern California and drug cartels to the south.<\/p>\n
I think I’m gonna go back to the first decade of the first millennium, no madonna there.\u00a0 Well, ok.\u00a0 The Madonna, but you know what I mean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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