So dad and I drove to Colorado for a graduate summer seminar in philosophy.
This was lovely and deserves praise styled into interjection and/or declarative mood with accompanying photos, but something fabulous was just uncovered in the bowels of my iTunes (the iNtestines?). A friend from my semester in Ireland foisted her entire late Cure
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It was about agency! It was a bit of a bootcamp experience, but it did trudge from Plato through Augustine through Davidson through more modern stuff, like the love of my life, Christine Korsgaard. (I did a project on her last year.) Here's the official spiel about it.
AND OH GOD YES. I'd never been this far west before, having only ever hit Detroit before running back to my beloved Northeastern states. Teton country is gorgeous. At a family friend's recommendation, Dad and I took route 212 out of Billings, Montana to yellowstone, AND WE DROVE UP A MOUNTAIN. It was a feat of engineering. I kept waiting for a freaking tunnel, or for the road to straighten out of switchbacks, but no, we just keep zigzagging up and up and up until we hit the top and then had to make the climb down. Unforgettable. Before that, it was incredibly flat -- clouds like continents. I do love my Appalachian country, but seeing the other extremes (real mountains and real plains) was incredible, too.
/ blabbity.
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