Posts Tagged ‘wisdom’
Wisdom is wherever one finds it…

From Surviving the World, Dante Shepherd’s “Daily Lessons in Science, Literature, Love, and Life.”
As we luxuriate in understanding, we might might compose celebratory hexameter for Publius Vergilius Maro (AKA, Vigil); the author of the Eclogues, the Georgics, and the Aeneid was born on this date in 70 BCE.
Heading for the hills…

Never does Nature say one thing, and Wisdom another
– Juvenal
It’s time for your correspondent to head for the snow-covered hills at the shag end of the Appalachians– where even the people are stuffed with cornbread– for his family’s annual festival of barbeque and brew. Regular service should resume as the New Year begins in earnest…

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