
"The artist needs to be complemented by the cultivated amateur, who...has some idea what to do with the artist's work." Northrop Frye
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Still from A24's production of Macbeth, Denzel Washington as Macbeth
Last school year, I taught Macbeth for the first time to a small class of high-schoolers at our homeschool co-op. I enjoyed the experience more than I can say. There are...
Jan Davidsz de Heem, Vase of Flowers
I love collective nouns. They are to me a kind of poetry. A single-line poem. A well-chosen collective noun is a descriptive and a riddle and an abstraction that encourages the eye to see anew something...
To my youngest, who recently turned 13
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Here's to my only babe born in the summer,
Born when the mead moon was full and high,
Born with soft ha...
There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
The Hobbit
In the story...
Francisco de Goya - Ghostly Vision
“But have I now seen death? Is this the way
I must return to native dust? O sight
Of terror, foul and ugly to behold,
Horrid to think, how horrible to feel!"
Paradise Lost XI
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Christian, wife, mother, non-academic. I write about what interests me, mostly literature, sometimes education, always with the goal of seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary.
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