This is “The Waking” by Theodore Roethke, and it’s my favorite poem. I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.I learn by going where I have to go. We think by feeling. What is there to know?I hear my being dance from ear to ear.I wake […]
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I’m a hopeless English major from UD
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Jun 2010
Summer Update:To my dearests: I’m in D.C. now, after a long and broken up drive. It’s good to be here where the things are green and swampy. It’s funny to be back in the east where the service is bad and the people don’t care. I rediscovered a few things: green plants, hills, mailboxes, and […]
Category: Hyperbole, Jerry, Master Artist, Painting, Rome, Washington D.C.
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Howdy y’all, I’m coming back to Dallas this Wednesday for a week and a half! Neal is getting hitched, so I wasn’t about to miss that. ‘Til then, I’ve written one last article for the “Claremont Independent;” tell me what you think. “The ‘Happiest Campus in the Country’? What Aristotle can tell us about true […]
Category: Claremont, Eudaimonia, Happiness, Kalokagathia, Nobility
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