I call Estelle my spiritual grandmother, and it is not because she isn't alive. At 92 years old, she's one of the healthiest elderly people I know. I call her that because while she is not my genetic grandmother (my mother having been adopted) there is no single person in my family whom I resemble more. Estelle taught for more than twenty years ( Read more... )

In this context of this discussion:

> Mumper, in an interview with The Columbus Dispatch, said he believes many ( Read more... )

It's been hard to keep this up outside of entries which are basically for my own use (viz. the Epictetus stuff). I've finally wrangled enough free time to start writing the godforsaken paper on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit that has been a thorn on my side for many many months already, and expect to have it wrapped up by the end of next week. I'm ( Read more... )

Epictetus' EnchiridionChapter 8. Translated by J ( Read more... )

Yo, check this out ( Read more... )

General Principles Concerning How to Fix ThingsI. Try the Magic Touch ( Read more... )

For poetry (and/or Greek) lovers:

George Seferis - Sleep. (4:33)
(Greek version, followed by translation)

Sleep is (C) 1950 G. Seferis, translation is (C) 1971 C. A. Trypanis.

S. (daughter): "And if you're nice, the Tooth Fairy takes your teeth and leaves you moneyJ. (me): "Oh. What does she do with all the teeth ( Read more... )

"But we - who are we? Are we that which draws near and comes to be in time? No, even before this coming to be came to be we were there, men who were different, and some of us even gods, pure souls and intellect united with the whole of reality; we were parts of the intelligible, not marked off or cut off but belonging to the whole; and we are not ( Read more... )

[I'm on a posting roll today]

"He who has not tasted the bitter does not deserve the sweet; indeed, he will not appreciate it. This is the very law of enjoyment, that pleasure does not run an even course, for this produces aversion and makes us dull, not joyful."

Leibniz, On the Radical Origination of Things,1697.