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Seneca, Ad Lucilium epistulae morales , XXVIII. "On Travel as a Cure for Discontent": Do you suppose that you alone have had this ...

Well, I finished that Murdoch book. It was, at least, more satisfying than A Severed Head , though I suspect the discrepancy owes much to t...

It is important to examine one's prejudices. This is not to say that all prejudice is bad; no, indeed! We need prejudice to adequately...

It is important to have things to do. A day or two of bone-idleness is enough: any more than that and you'll probably end up sitting on...

There is a tension inherent in the Christian tradition between the urge to glorify the Divine through art and the temptation for that same a...

Do you recall the accompanist job at an elementary school I mentioned a few months ago? This week I concluded my duties there. I must say ...

In this time of leaving, becoming aware of all the places and things and people at Notre Dame I will see no more, I have spent some time thi...

As for the graduate student, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is go...

Nothing is so beautiful as Spring —          When weeds in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;          Thrush's eggs look little lo...