Gabriel Gudding's Blog, page 11

movement in fire, air, water as metaphors for mental states

Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee; as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he for ever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the

acchariyā abbhutā dhammā

There is no music attached to this short video. Preferable that way.
Roger Ebert, in a 1999 review of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, one of the first movies I saw with my daughter, notes that we also turn from even external wonders: "How quickly do we grow accustomed to wonders. I am reminded of the Isaac Asimov story 'Nightfall,' about the planet where the stars were visible only once in a

on a happier day

on a happier day

my two best friends

my two best friends

so little is our loss.... then / all this earthly grossne...

so little is our loss.... then / all this earthly grossness quit / attired with stars / we shall for ever / sit, triumphing / over death and chance and ... time. M[ilton] Why / desire to live another day? It / will be like the last: same / sun, same stars, same father, & / friends, nothing more to see. M[ontaigne]. p 42 The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks, RWE, ed Ralph H Orth

after the students leave intro to literary genres

after the students leave intro to literary genres

after the students leave intro to literary genresSent fro...

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near the mazon river in a gale

near the mazon river in a gale

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franke institute for the humanitiesuniversity of chicago

franke institute for the humanities
university of chicago