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?”...
Jul 19, 2017 | Man of the Household, Wednesday Quotes, What to Do This Summer
“We read to know that we’re not alone.” –attributed to C.S. Lewis; actually from Shadowlands, a movie about Lewis. While there is something attractive about this quotation, I’m glad that Lewis didn’t actually say it. While reading can indeed be a wonderful way...
Jul 12, 2017 | Natural Steward, Wednesday Quotes
“To walk because it is good for you warps the soul, just as it warps the soul for a man to talk for hire or because he think it his duty.” Hilaire Belloc Perhaps Belloc exaggerates—something to which he was prone. But it raises a great question: why should one walk?...
Jul 5, 2017 | Man of the Household, Wednesday Quotes, What to Do This Summer
“I cannot separate it [watching the world go by] from the porch where it occurs. The action and the space are indivisible. The action is supported by this kind of space. The space supports this kind of action. The two form a unit, a pattern of events in space.”...
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