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Monthly Archives: February 2015

Growing Plants From Seed.

23-Feb-15

Zliten A piece I wrote for the Catskill Native Plant Society on cold stratifying seed.

The Paideia Living Latin in New York Conference, 2015.

18-Feb-15

http://aceliverpoolescorts.co.uk/gastonluga-mastaren_review/ I think it was last year, at Rusticatio Virginiana, when I really felt that something was happening with the Classics. Something felt different: for so long, Classics had felt for me like a lone pursuit, and, fundamentally, a struggle: a struggle to learn, a struggle to teach, a struggle to find books and materials for, […]

Cheryl Strayed’s Vita Nuova.

12-Feb-15

In my previous essay about Cheryl Strayed’s excellent book Wild, I took as my theme the nature of the experience Strayed had, a truly transformational one which ultimately changed her perspective on almost all the issues of importance. Tranformation of perspective like this is called in Greek metanoia, a wonderful word which implies both alteration […]

Gardening for Life.

10-Feb-15

A nice piece on Doug Tallamy and the new gardening.  “We have to raise the bar on our landscapes. In the past, we have asked one thing of our gardens: that they be pretty. Now they have to support life, sequester carbon, feed pollinators, and manage water.”  Real life always works this way: something always […]

Main Street, Denning, February.

10-Feb-15

This is an actual picture of the road as I drove home yesterday along Denning Road.

Wisdom.

09-Feb-15

“Wisdom consists of doing the next thing that you have to do, doing it with all your heart, and doing it with delight… and that delight is a sense of the sacred.” – Helen Luke

Something Is Happening.

01-Feb-15

A very nice article by Tony Grafton which testifies to the work of the Paideia Institute, a not-for-profit cultural institution inspired by Fr. Reginald Foster with a focus on linking a classical, humanistic education with the joy of being human.  I have spent much of my life with the people mentioned in the article, and […]

Learning the Human Cost of Our Consumption.

01-Feb-15

A Norwegian newspaper has created a reality show that involves sending three fashion bloggers to Cambodia to work in a Cambodian sweatshop.  This is an effective show for several reasons – the beauty of the young Norwegians, the fact that beautiful women in distress makes for good television, the enjoyment people get from watching spoiled […]