Spent most of the month planning Laura's Year 10, reading and researching books for her to read. I found so many ideas and historical references to learn more about. Another year of learning for me too!
..."a coin placed in the mouth of the deceased to pay Charon, ferryman in charge of the passage across the underworld's river Styx." (Resurrection of the Son of God, N.T. Wright p. 38)
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"There's matter in these sighs. These profound heaves.
You must translate; 'tis fit we understand them." (Hamlet, Act IV, Scene 1)
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"You have no record of standing up for anything that would require courage, character or any level of defiance." (unknown)
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Research Jacobite versus Jacobin from Online Etymology Dictionary
Latin - Jacobus
Late Latin - Jacomus - Middle English vernacular form - James
Old French - James, Jacques, Iacobus - diminutive (Jack)
Spanish - Jaime, also Diego
Italian - Giacomo
Welsh - Iago
Cornish - Jago
Greek - Iakobos
Hebrew - Ya' aqobh
Anglo-French - jake, jaikes
Middle English - Jakke, Jacke (Jackie)
Scottish - Jock
Side note: Jack and Jill, Iakke and Gylle, Ienken and Iulyan
From same source:
Tory
"vaguely 'a conservative' or anyone who supports the continuance of established authority and institutions or has aristocratic principles (opposed to a 'liberal' or 'democrat')
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Anthony Esolen (X post from August 17, 2024)
"One of the things that Milton shows consistently is that evil makes you stupid. The converse, of course, is not true. Stupidity does not make you evil. It is still a vice, though, and it leaves you vulnerable.
The devils are evil and stupid, though they have plenty of brains: they can out-talk the greatest of rhetoricians, and even out-talk themselves. But in their attempts to avoid the truth, they twist their brains into Gordian knots of self-contradiction. Milton SHOWS us these knots, expecting us to perceive them -- he does not ever tell us that they are there. That of course would spoil the drama and the fun.
What kinds of people do the devils most resemble? Politicians, that's who: most of the time when we hear a devil talking, we hear somebody trying to persuade himself or others of what is not true, even while a great deal of truth may be tangled up in his speech. It is the precise opposite of Jesus's injunction, that our yes should be yes and our no should be no.
Anyway, here's how Milton describes Beelzebub, after the council of devils seems ready to decide on a course that Satan does not approve:
... with grave
Aspect he rose, and in his rising seemed
A Pillar of State; deep on his front engraven
Deliberation sat and public care,
And princely Counsels in his face yet shone
Majestic, though in ruin; sage he stood
With Atlantean shoulders fit to bear
The weight of mightiest Monarchies; his look
Drew audience and attention still as night
Or summer's noontide air, while thus he spake.
I suppose the healthiest thing would be to admire true statesmen, of whom there are right now, in the United States, very few, and never to take the rest seriously, and sometimes to hold the silliest, vainest, slickest, and most ambitious up to ridicule. Every political commercial I have seen in NH, for local and state candidates of both parties, has persuaded me that I must be governed by ambitious buffoons of both sexes. But since you can't say, "That lady is a twit," without having everybody point at you, crying, "You're a bad man, you're a VERY bad man," the female buffoons are condemned to go without the occasional salutary dash of mockery, which might give them an occasional and fleeting glimpse of what they are. Anyway, between buffoon and buffoon, there's not a dime's difference. So you vote for the party you believe will do least harm, if only because it's the party that will do the least of anything at all..."
Clarifying follow-up:
"I don't mean that they did not have brains. They did -- plenty. But the evil twists those brains in knots. It doesn't mean that they can't conceive of things and achieve them. It means that they end up tangled in self-contradictions -- and blindness. Macbeth, Richard III..."
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer: (Dietrich Bonhoeffer, from ‘After Ten Years’ in Letters and Papers from Prison
(Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works/English, vol. 8) Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2010. )
"Upon closer observation, it becomes apparent that every strong upsurge of power in the public sphere, be it of a political or a religious nature, infects a large part of humankind with stupidity. The power of the one needs the stupidity of the other. The process at work here is not that particular human capacities, for instance, the intellect, suddenly atrophy or fail. Instead, it seems that under the overwhelming impact of rising power, humans are deprived of their inner independence and, more or less consciously, give up establishing an autonomous position toward the emerging circumstances. The fact that the stupid person is often stubborn must not blind us to the fact that he is not independent. In conversation with him, one virtually feels that one is dealing not at all with him as a person, but with slogans, catchwords, and the like that have taken possession of him. He is under a spell, blinded, misused, and abused in his very being. Having thus become a mindless tool, the stupid person will also be capable of any evil and at the same time incapable of seeing that it is evil. This is where the danger of diabolical misuse lurks, for it is this that can once and for all destroy human beings."
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"M. Myriel had to submit to the fate of every newcomer in a small town, where many tongues talk but few heads think." (Les Miserables, Fantine, Book 1, Chapter 1, An Upright Man, Victor Hugo)
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Especially for Kathleen: Isn't this almost every mother and son before son goes out to do something for the first time?
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Psalm 106:24,25
"Then they scorned the Promised Land and would not believe His word,
But murmured in their tents and would not heed the voice of the LORD."
Speaking quietly to one another in their tents complaining about the dangers and problems of going into Canaan was a sign of unbelief and angered the Lord. Could He not deal with the armies of Canaanite nations the same as He dealt with Pharoah's army? Yet the people of Israel would not trust in the Lord.
Taking cues from the environment as opposed to believing God's Word has been a temptation for God's people for all time.
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"Traditions aren't just customs we follow, they're threads that weave our stories together." Glad and Golden Hours, Lanier Ivester and Jennifer Trafton
From my own experience of what tradition feels like, I would substitute the word "days" for "stories". Traditions are like threads that weave our days together. If I think about what last Tuesday was like, the traditions of each day hold the memories fresher in my mind. What we do in our house when we wake up and how the day progresses usually versus how it differs that particular Tuesday. In this case, last Tuesday, the girls and I drove to Dieppe for the funeral of a relative's mother on Shane's side of the family. The day started and ended in the same way because of the morning and evening traditions, but the activity of the day was a departure of what a typical day is like.
By making most of your own food and meals, you can avoid the addictive flavoring technology that makes you overeat what is often inferior calories.
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