Jan 27, 2021 | True Friendship, True Friendship (Featured Posts), Wednesday Quotes
“Besides, friendship is especially necessary for living…” Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics There are two reasons we might not give true friendship the priority it deserves. For some, it seems to us that we already have it. Or in any case, it is not evident to us... 
Dec 16, 2020 | Good Work, Man of the Household, Natural Steward, True Friendship, Wednesday Quotes
“We’ve gotten stuck in the summer mode, in chronic summer… In fall and winter we should move into a new mode, a contractive and restorative mode… like coming home at the end of the day… with a sense of settling, of slowing down, of peace, of... 
Dec 2, 2020 | Man of the Household, True Friendship, True Friendship (Featured Posts), Wednesday Quotes
“First house and wife and an ox for the plough.” Hesiod, Works and Days I think I am not alone in feeling unsettled these days. I experience a subtle, low-grade but constant stress, a sense of foreboding that tends toward fear. Where are things going in our nation and... 
Oct 14, 2020 | True Friendship, Wednesday Quotes
“Yet even in these nobility shines through, when a man bears with resignation many great misfortunes, not through insensibility to pain but through nobility and greatness of soul.” Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics I didn’t realize how difficult it would be for me to... 
Sep 16, 2020 | True Friendship, Wednesday Quotes
“I saw them in all the times past and to come, all somehow there in their own time and in all time and in no time…” Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow Some time ago it really struck me when reading Wendell Berry’s fiction how he portrayed growing old, and... 
Sep 2, 2020 | True Friendship, Wednesday Quotes
“Our (natural) desire cannot be empty and vain.” Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle has a remarkable sense of the human drama, of the gift and the challenge it is to be human. Not that the style or voice of his writing is itself dramatic. But if we look through...
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