Monday I awoke to a light snowfall. I sat up in bed and watched it now on an old pair of fir trees that take up much of the window. On Tuesday it kept on snowing. The first snowfall of the year always brings with it a warm and happy feeling. When it does happen, … Continue reading The Quiet Joy of Snow
What does it mean to be educated? To have acquired specific knowledge and skills? To have a basic understanding of math, the sciences, and art? To have good social skills and be good with other people? To act respectufully toward the environment and animals? To have good table manners? To keep quiet when your mother … Continue reading What Does It Mean to Be Educated (According to Epictetus)
You know that feeling when you wake up but it doesn’t look like morning outside? When it’s so overcast you almost have to turn on the light. When the bare branches of the trees shiver against the gray sky. And people on the streets walk with their head down, sunken in their coats, and then … Continue reading Why Bad Weather Doesn’t Get Me Down (Most of the Time At Least)
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