What is defeat? Is defeat merely losing or is it something deeper? Does the difference, if any, define inform possible wise peace requirements to place on a defeated enemy.
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Welcome to the return, later in the day than usual, return of Sunday Reading. It is a short list today, but a goal for March is returning to a full set of Pythagorean solids every week.
We know things that validate our position is not only correct, but correct in a way that makes us better than those who hold other positions.
Whatever I was thinking, I’m in it now. Either I’ll look like a fool and having nothing or I’ll look like a fool with a very bad first book.
Two weeks ago, I made a post about starting my Groundhog Day resolutions planning. After looking at areas in my life to consider, I pointed out back in December I started a list of processes I might focus on this year. Today, we’ll look at that list and see where it fits in the six areas to which I had narrowed my thinking.
Today is the Twenty-ninth Sunday after Pentecost and the Twelfth Sunday of Luke. It is the feast day of Venerable Makarios the Great of Egypt, the Anchorite.
Slaying a Tyrant starts off with the titular tyrant and shows his disregard for the norms of his culture. Isn’t that the nature of a tyrant? A ruler, no matter how absolute his power, that stays within the bounds, formal or informal, placed on his power is not a tyrant. One who breaks no formal law, but who violates informal norms, often is a tyrant.
Specifically, I want my Groundhog Day goals to be about measuring processes I want to have in place, or in the case of bad habits, processes I want to ease off my routine.
A Once and Future Love was my first time travel romance. Based on it, it will not be my last, nor will it be my last book by Anne Kelleher. It had three big strengths separate from the things that have kept me reading romance on and off.
This post has a rare style, called a “paragrapher” that stems from the introduction to my latest essay collection.
