Jul 1, 2020 | Natural Steward, Wednesday Quotes
“Trees were the temples of the gods, and, following old established ritual, country places even now dedicate an outstandingly tall tree to a god.” Pliny the Elder, Natural History What we find in the news and social media tends to frame much of what we think about... 
Jun 24, 2020 | Man of the Household, Wednesday Quotes
“…and this will be realized in their living together…” Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics For many of us the external constraint to remain at home has come to an end. A retrospective glance is perhaps in order. For a moment I am going to abstract from the surrounding... 
Jun 10, 2020 | Man of the Household, Wednesday Quotes
“Reason my son Should choose himself a wife, but as good reason The father, all whose joy is nothing else But fair posterity, should hold some counsel In such a business.” Shakespeare, A Winter’s Tale [Polixenes, King of Bohemia, to his son.] How does one choose a... 
May 27, 2020 | Good Work, Good Work (Featured Posts), Wednesday Quotes
“In all manual work we find the primal phenomenon of culture that is human but close to nature.” “The sphere in which we live is becoming more and more artificial, less and less human,” Romano Guardini, Letters from Lake Como We have lost something today, but we can... 
Apr 29, 2020 | True Friendship, Wednesday Quotes
“And yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays. The more the pity that some honest neighbors will not make them friends.” Shakespeare (Bottom, in A Midsummer Night’s Dream) Lovers can be notoriously irrational. But is true love... 
Apr 15, 2020 | Wednesday Quotes
The bells of this campanile (bell tower) heralded Easter joy to a rural mountain community in Tuscany, as they have for hundreds of years. This Easter may we discover a joy that is more than a passing experience; a joy that endures not just as a backdrop but as the...
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