Category: Better Living Through Literature
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The only thing new in the world is the history you don’t know.
In “Harry Truman’s History Lessons,” published in Prologue (Spring 2009, Vol.9, No. 1), a magazine featuring articles based on the U.S. National Archives, Samuel W. Rushay, Jr., archivist for the Truman Presidential Museum and Library, asserts what history meant to Harry S. Truman: both ethical and moral guidance and, most notably as President of the…
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Sweet are the uses of adversity
And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything. (AYLI, 2.1.12-17) This Good Friday seems a good day to address a dear friend’s question about the meaning of daffodils–and also to shape the wherefore of this new blog. Anthropologist Leslie…
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wand’ring steps and slow
Spring has not yet arrived at 43 degrees north latitude to the extent this host of golden daffodils from 2021 displays. Still, this blogger, untutored in a medium so many others have mastered, in this her maiden post hopes their cheering presence will shed some grace on this enterprise. Harvard’s Arthur Brooks touts the “crystallized…
Georgeann Murphy 