Sep 6, 2023 | Wednesday Quotes
Seeing our own weakness exemplified in someone else, including and perhaps especially in artistic representation, can be a great opportunity for us—if we recognize ourselves, and also see the weakness for what it is. Recently as we were reading Pride and Prejudice out...
May 18, 2022 | Man of the Household, Wednesday Quotes
“Likewise, you should know that you will be so close to your husband that wherever he goes he will carry the memory, recollection, and reminder of you. You notice it in all married couples, for as soon as we see the husband, we ask him, ‘How is your wife?’ and as soon...
Feb 16, 2022 | Man of the Household, Man of the Household (Featured Posts), Wednesday Quotes
If men could be contented to be what they are, there were no fear in marriage. Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well There is often fear in marriage, and it can be of several kinds. I think Shakespeare’s object here is perhaps the primary fear attending...
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 13, 2020 | Man of the Household, Man of the Household (Featured Posts)
“Goodbye Aeneas. Cherish our love in the son it gave us.” Virgil, The Aeneid This stunningly powerful goodbye between spouses says so much. A son, it says, was ‘given’ to a couple by the love they bore one another. Love between spouses is already itself a gift. That...
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