My Teacher, Mr. Pettit For most of my life I have been a student. But for the past 4 weeks I have become a teacher. As I "teach" I am seeking to understand what am I doing? What is Teaching? It has been interesting being a teacher after having been a student for [...]
The following is another quote from The Closing of the American Mind. There will probably be more quotes in the future because it is such a good read. This one is about the disappearance of Family in America. My friend Nate at The Treekiller Press asked me to write a review of the book. So [...]
"America was not for him (Tocqueville) a people with a book." One can think of American writers and writings that should be read and frequently are read; but, to the extent that Americans are readers, the whole world is their bookshelf; there has not been the deep necessity to absorb their own country's writings that [...]
I started reading a book called The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education has failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students by Allan Bloom. I bought it in part because I was blown away by the preface. I am still reading the introduction and I find an interesting idea or thought on virtually every page. [...]
Source: Christopher Stollar, The Black Lens An article recently published by the Source entitled Sex, Lies & Snapchat talks about sex trafficking in Central Oregon. The article begins with a brief and unnerving excerpt from a new novel by Christopher Stollar entitled The Black Lens. The book is based on his experience investigating sex [...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXyTp6JEroY An interesting video about Dragan, a young man struggling to find himself in a post-war community. He turned his life around through the "Be a Man Club", part of Care International's Young Men Initiative in the Balkans. This programme is trying to help youth find meaning and purpose, while also promoting gender equality [...]
The following is from an essay about Trauma entitled "Childhood, disrupted" written by: Donna Jackson Nakazawa The adversity a child faces doesn’t have to be severe abuse in order to create deep biophysical changes that can lead to chronic health conditions in adulthood. ‘Our findings showed that the 10 different types of adversity we examined were [...]
According to Plotinus in his work On Providence- We are like people ignorant of painting who complain that the colours are not beautiful everywhere in the picture: but the Artist has laid on the appropriate tint in every spot. Or we are censuring a drama because the persons are not all heroes but include a [...]
From these considerations we conclude that most likely those who firmly maintain that god exists will be forced into impiety: for if they say that he takes care of everything, they will be saying that god is the cause of evils, while if they say that he takes care of some things only or even [...]
Image: Circe Invidiosa The Fountain of Youth is not a myth Not to say that myths are false. Only that a myth is symbolic of something And the Fountain of Youth is not a symbol. Of course you could make it a symbol if you wanted to, As is anything for that matter. There are [...]