Category: Peace
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July 16, 2021 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Likely you are already familiar with the image of Olympics rings, the symbol of the Olympic Games. First introduced in 1913, it has become a ubiquitous representation of sports across continents. Based on a design by Pierre de Coubertin, the rings represent the …
January 29, 2021 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. “It is not easy to realize the serene joy of all the earth, when she commences to shine unobstructedly, unless you have often been abroad alone in moonlight nights.” – Henry David Thoreau Discussions this month focused on Henry David Thoreau’s essay “Night …
February 14, 2020 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Natasha Trethewey’s poem “Myth,” from Native Guard, beautifully describes what it is like to seek the impossible. Trethewey wrote the poem as an expression of sorrow at the loss of her mother. Written as a palindrome, it is a perfect representation of loss …
August 3, 2018 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Each quarter, Harrison Middleton University hosts a Quarterly Discussion. This discussion is open to students and non-students alike. They focus on a short text which everyone reads prior to the discussion. I thoroughly enjoy these because they give me a chance to break …
June 15, 2018 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. “A wise man always eats well.” – Chinese proverb MFK Fisher (a friend and contemporary of Julia Child) first published How to Cook a Wolf in 1942 in the midst of World War II. The book deals with domestic stresses during war time, …
October 27, 2017 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. In most cases, letter writing became fashionable only after the establishment of a postal service. However, state business has been conducted via the written letter since the beginning of formal governments. Our most recent Quarterly Discussion focused on six different letters from the …
January 13, 2017 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. U2 performing MLK Common, “A Dream” Martin Luther King, Jr. was one of the most vocal and prolific proponents of a path to peace through nonviolence. He fought with words and love and forgiveness, instead of fear and anger. He responded to death …
June 17, 2016 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. “To be, or not to be: that is the question.” – Shakespeare, Hamlet Last week, we discussed the practice of being fully present within an actual moment, whereas today we will discover what a number of authors say about the mind’s ability to …
January 15, 2016 “The days of peace and slumberous calm are fled;/ Those days, all innocent of scathing war,/ When all the fair Existences of heaven/ Came open-eyed to guess what we would speak: – / That was before our brows were taught to frown,/ Before our lips knew else but solemn sounds;/ That …
