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Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Thoreau on Liberal Education, Wealth, and Freedom

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“We seem to have forgotten that the expression "a liberal education" originally meant among the Romans one worthy of free men; wh...
Saturday, February 27, 2016

Giving Thanks In The "Damned Country": Stegner on "Antibiotic"

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“’What a damned country,’ he said. Watching the river, he had not noticed the movement at the far corner of the garden below him, but now ...
Thursday, January 21, 2016

National Park Law - Knopf and Stegner

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“ Those who would protect the Parks and Monuments must rest their case always on the organic law that created the National Park Service. An...
Saturday, January 2, 2016

The Slow, Important Work Of Poetry

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At the time it seemed like chance that brought me to minor in comparative poetry in college. Without having a master plan, over four year...
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Monday, December 14, 2015

Gifts From My Father

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My father spent his career as an engineer working for IBM and NASA.   Growing up with an engineer is an education in itself.  As a boy...
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Monday, November 30, 2015

Racism, Samaritans, and Saints

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As I've read news about recent protests on campuses across the country I've often wondered how I could respond helpfully if I were...
Sunday, November 22, 2015

The Lesser Feast of C.S. Lewis

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On this day in 1963, Clive Staples Lewis died.  Some of us now observe November 22nd as the Lesser Feast of C.S. Lewis.  Here is one of my ...
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Tuesday, August 4, 2015

South Fork, Eagle River

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After breakfast we put sack lunches in the cooler and threw our backpacks in the fifteen-passenger van. Half an hour later we were piling ...