I. Crito It was early in the morning, when a man on death row woke up to the sound of his friend entering the cell. “Today is my day to die, isn’t it?” The prisoner says. His friend answers, “No, but maybe tomorrow. But there is time. Come quickly! I have bribed the guards for […]

  “It’s the greatest good for a man to discuss virtue everyday . . . on the grounds that the unexamined life isn’t worth living for a human being.” -Socrates  My friend Peter and I have decided to read through the Great Books. We are on the ten-year reading plan. If I am still blogging […]

If you haven’t heard of Christo and Jeanne-Claude, go get some napkins. Your mind is about to explode. This lover-artist team has been wrapping things in fabric since the early 60s. That doesn’t sound impressive until you realize they covered valleys, bridges, soon rivers, and even the Reichstag (The German parliament building) during the Cold […]

We all know that when you hold down the talk button on a radio, you can’t hear anything that is being said by anyone else. To speak you have to cut out all incoming information. I feel like blogging has that danger. I want this blog to be different. But why blog at all? Aren’t […]