Samhain\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 New Thanksgiving Moon<\/p>\n
Latin today.\u00a0 I spent several hours on Wednesday translating, or attempting to translate, one sentence in Ovid.\u00a0 One sentence.\u00a0 At this rate the world will have a long wait for the Ellis translation of the Metamorphosis.\u00a0 On the other hand, I’m getting a word by word, phrase by phrase introduction to this central text for understanding mythology and its appropriation in the Western literary tradition.\u00a0 Which is, after all, what I am after.<\/p>\n
As chair of the Sierra Club’s legislative committee and in that role responsible for the Northstar chapter’s presence at the legislature, I’m still sorting through the results of Tuesday’s elections.\u00a0 They changed the entire direction of our 2011 effort, no doubt, but in what way we won’t know quite yet.\u00a0 A lot of thinking ahead.\u00a0 On Monday I’m going to attend a meeting of environmental lobbyists who will begin group discussion of what the playing field will look like.<\/p>\n
Next week I have my first tour of the Thaw collection with the Rochester Friends of the Institute.\u00a0 My current plan is to select objects for that tour as Thaw selected his objects, i.e. by choosing the most aesthetically pleasing works.\u00a0 Most pleasing to me, that is.\u00a0 Here’s my current list:\u00a0 Yupik masks, raven-who-owns-the-sun frontlet, fish bowl, ferns basket, the medicine bag, the boy’s shirt, ledger book, Elgin artifacts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Samhain\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 New Thanksgiving Moon Latin today.\u00a0 I spent several hours on Wednesday translating, or attempting to translate, one sentence in Ovid.\u00a0 One sentence.\u00a0 At this rate the world will have a long wait for the Ellis translation of the Metamorphosis.\u00a0 On the other hand, I’m getting a word by word, phrase by phrase introduction to … Continue reading Noodling<\/span>