Jul 3, 2024 | Wednesday Quotes
“We read to know that we’re not alone.” These words are attributed to C.S. Lewis, but it seems they are just from Shadowlands, a movie about him. While there is something attractive about this quotation, I’m glad that Lewis didn’t actually say it. Reading can indeed...
Aug 16, 2023 | Wednesday Quotes
‘Summer’ is a season given bounds as much by schooling, work, and vacation as by the earth’s relation to the sun. Though we have another month until the autumnal equinox, most of us experience summer as ‘done’ by around mid-August. I think it reasonable that we accept...
Aug 9, 2017 | Man of the Household, Wednesday Quotes
“And the final outcome of education, I suppose we’d say, is a single newly finished person, who is either good or the opposite.” Plato, Republic Thinking about education is one of the most central and thorny of questions for parents. This time of year is usually a...
Aug 2, 2017 | Natural Steward, Wednesday Quotes, What to Do This Summer
“He who postpones wrestles with ruin.” Hesiod, Works and Days One of the profound aspects of our relationship with the earth, and with one another, is timing. There are natural rhythms, to which we need to learn to conform ourselves. Isn’t one of the...
Jul 26, 2017 | Man of the Household, Wednesday Quotes, What to Do This Summer
“But when children play the right games from the beginning… it follows them in everything…” Socrates, in Plato’s Republic The question broke through the pleasant fog of dozing off on the couch on a Sunday afternoon. “Daddy, do you want to play statue?”...
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