Note: This article was originally posted in December of 2011. Matt Bianco’s review of “The Little Way of Ruthie Leming” inspired this repost. Thank you, Matt. Clover, South Carolina will always feel like home to me. My parents still live there and, on a recent trip down to help them move a few miles into […]
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“When it comes to kids, people just don’t think about happiness enough these days. They think about success. They think in comparisons. They think about milestones, graduations and shiny trophies… They think about things like redshirting a potential Kindergartener — not so that he will be happy, but so that he will have an advantage
Over the last few years, I’ve read several books that seem to be beckoning me to home. Almost any of Wendell Berry’s books, especially the one I’ve read most recently, Jayber Crow, will stir your thoughts to home and community. In June, I attended the CiRCE Summer Institute’s inaugural retreat, where we read and discussed
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“Suddenly, right before their eyes, look, a potent marvel destined to shape the future!” The Aeneid, Book V. ll. 575-6 The funeral games for Anchises in book five of the Aeneid provide a necessary respite from the piercing drama and tragic end of Dido in book four—which concludes with the arresting imagery of Dido atop
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