So here we are again

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Ben and I have been working together since 2001.  We met at Patrick's and had a lively discussion about language, culture, mathematics, religion and the pathways that led us both to our understanding of our place in the universe.

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I have known Laura for many years working first with her as a colleague at Providence Academy in Plymouth, MN.  She attended Hillsdale College in Michigan where she was first exposed to the great books and classical thinking.  Currently Laura is a middle school teacher at Saint Jerome Classical School.  

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Discussing the strange sense that I am a fraud who will one day be exposed before my peers.

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Adam and I have known each other for many years. In this episode we met at Claddagh Irish pub in Maple Grove. The conversation ranged from Arthurian stories to modern literature to movies and culture. We both agreed the teaching although a risky and subversive profession is also the noblest. We would both rather be Achilles than Ares. I had the shepherds pie and a Guinness; Adam had the fish and I got him to try scotch eggs for the first time. I highly recommend the Claddagh.

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Margaret and I discuss the paradox of the Incarnation as a peaceful Messiah. There doesn’t seem to be any precedent for this event in history. Nor is there any parallel in any other religion or culture. And like all paradoxes it raises more questions that it resolves.

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I first worked with Dr. Cameron Mikael Thompson, anthropologist and moral psychologist, at Chesterton Academy in Edina, MN.  

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Reflection on Stonehenge and other neolithic structures. How long they’ve lasted and what in our culture will last when we are long gone.

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Then it struck me why is there no futuristic writing before the 1800s?

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This is a novel way to read the play - through the lens of the Scholastic Debate of the 13th century.  Inspired by the Shakespeare 2020 project initiated by Ian Doescher (of Shakespeare Star Wars fame) I invite you to see this great work as influenced by the struggle between Nominalism and Realism.

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