Rafe goes solo this week to discuss John Keats' Ode on a Grecian Urn.  In it we learn that all we know, and all we need to know, is that Beauty is Truth.  The discussion takes a trip through the symbols in the poem and how the Things of Old are passed down through time to us and how those things help align our souls to seek the ultimate Good.

Along the way, we bump into our old friends Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle and discuss their influence on Augustine and Aquinas. 

We wrap up with the Carpe Diem  admonition from the 1980's movie Dead Poet's Society and discover that Keats' Grecian Urn and the old photos in DPS both speak to the present from the past, encouraging us to align ourselves with the Good and seize the day.

"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may."

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