Tag: change
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February 10, 2023 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Before reading the ideas in this blog, I invite you to view a piece by artist M.C. Escher and listen to the “Endlessly Rising Canon” by Bach. In his book, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas Hofstadter paraphrases Kurt Gödel’s Incompleteness …
December 18, 2020 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. During this pandemicky year, a friend of mine has taken to writing me a letter every day. She usually includes details about the workday, family responsibilities, emotions of being at home, etc. A few times, she has included an old postcard, written more …
September 11, 2020 Thanks to Dean Coslovi, a 2020 HMU Fellow in Ideas, for today’s post. “Among my writings my Zarathustra stands by itself. With this book I have given mankind the greatest gift it has ever been given.” – Ecce Homo, Friedrich Nietzsche. In Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Nietzsche has his enlightened character, Zarathustra, proclaim …
January 18, 2019 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Every Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, I enjoy rereading some of Dr. King’s remarkable works. As a culture, we are still coming to terms with his life, his death, and his very beautiful words. Personally, his words resonate with me in any number …
November 3, 2017 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. In celebration of fall color, today’s blog offers excerpts from both Rachel Carson and Aldo Leopold. Both passages celebrate life, love and the mystery of nature. They also ask deep questions about the human place within nature. Changing colors and seasons present the …
October 6, 2017 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Myth is what happens to a strong belief once the belief has changed. In other words, what was once firm belief, turns into cultural story and entertainment. They become important narratives, but not necessarily belief systems. For example, we know who Zeus is, …
August 19, 2016 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Harvest time is a bittersweet time for me. With the wonderful fruit, comes long hours of picking, canning and packaging. The weather also changes, days get shorter and the winter schedule is much tighter than summer’s. Change can be difficult to deal with, …
