What young people need are compelling visions of who they are, where they, what is worth believing, what is worth admiring, and what is worth choosing. They need an education in desire. . . . → Read More: Intelligent Desire
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 Comments are closed  Desire, Explore, Metaphor, Narrative Environment, Schools, Transcendence, What is worth admiring?, What is worth believing?, What is worth choosing? Calypso’s island is a familiar place to most people. Many of us reached some island of relative peace and pleasure, compared to other places we’ve experienced. It isn’t what we set out for, but it’s better than it might have been, and who knows if there can be any more? One could settle. . . . → Read More: The enchanted cave, part 1 Comments are closed Character, Community-Centered, Desire, Family, Metaphor, Place, What is worth choosing?  Education, narrative story, Transcendence In a Marxist reading of Hamlet, the good prince’s spiritual awakening is invisible, and in a Freudian reading, the urgency of his advice to the queen is lost in psychosexual musings. . . . → Read More: On “reading” the great books Comments are closed Character, Explore, Metaphor, Narrative Environment, Readings, Reflect, Transcendence Education, narrative story, Philosophy, Truth Young people, and not only they, “have studied and practiced a crippled eros that can no longer take wing, and does not contain within it the longing for eternity and the divination of one’s relatedness to being.” This eroticism is sated, sterile, lame, and “is not the divine madness that Socrates praised.” . . . → Read More: I could not have imagined this Comments are closed Character, Desire, Gardens, Metaphor, Schools, What is worth admiring?, What is worth believing? Education, Love, narrative story, Philosophy, Transcendence, Truth The primary mission of dragons is simply to keep people from the truth, particularly those truths that lead most directly and surely to joy. This is mainly because dragons are not themselves happy, having once hoped joy could be theirs as an entitlement rather than as what it always has been and always will be–a complex balance requiring constant care. So now they wander the dark regions, trying to vindicate themselves by blocking the way of others to rather simple moments that unaccountably add up to eternity. . . . → Read More: The truth about dragons One comment - (Comments are closed) Character, Desire, Essay, Family, Metaphor, Narrative Environment, Teaching, Transcendence, What is worth admiring?, What is worth believing?, What is worth choosing? Courting, Evil, Gender, Love, Transcendence, Truth |
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