The Bhagavad Gita is book #17 from The Literary Project. “He who in action sees inaction and action in inaction–he is wise among men, he is a yogin, and he has accomplished all his work.” Ch4, 18 When I make a conscience decision to take […]
Ecce Homo is book #223 from The Literary Project. Ecce Homo is technically considered an autobiography, although it must be pointed out that there is much to be desired in terms of what one usually expects from a biographical account. Life events and facts within […]
De Rerum Natura is book #34 from The Literary Project. De Rerum Natura–or On the Nature of the Universe–is a didactic poem that is, as a whole, “a philosophical meditation on human happiness.” It explores the world from an epistemological perspective—possibly the earliest form of scientific inquiry […]
As I read through the ancient classics, I don’t normally dwell on how it is that this particular epic poem or that drama came to rest in my hands after thousands of years. In the Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Swerve: How The World Became Modern, Stephen Greenblatt offers […]
Mnemosyne, [nee-mos–uh-nee], is the Greek goddess of memory, and mother of the Nine Muses by Zeus. This “Invoking Mnemosyne” series is where I share what poetry & prose it is that I’m memorizing as part of my self-education journey. I was reading through an anthology of […]
Mnemosyne, [nee-mos–uh-nee], is the Greek goddess of memory, and mother of the Nine Muses by Zeus. Pictured is Mnemosyne by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1881, © Delaware Art Museum. I’ve briefly mentioned on The Project page about my plan to commit portions of certain texts to memory. […]
1984 is book #269 from The Literary Project. I recently re-read George Orwell’s classic dystopian novel 1984. It had been at least 15 years since I had read it the first time, and so I remembered little. In diving in again, I was struck by Orwell’s […]
Agamemnon is book #10 from The Literary Project. “…they shall eat the fruit of their way, and have their fill of their own devices.” (Proverbs 1:31-32) Never has this been more true within literature than in the tragic story of the immortal blood curse shadowing the […]
January 2017 Hello 2017! I’m back from my hiatus. My husband and I have been busy with the new home we purchased last August. These last few months we’ve had new drain cleanouts installed, poured concrete to widen the driveway, and had artificial turf installed in the […]
August 2016 My husband and I have purchased our first home! We’re absolutely ecstatic, as it’s all that we hoped for. That said, it means I’ll be very busy these coming months with packing, moving, scrubbing, painting, repairing, building…and all the wonderful labors of love […]