3/12: hearing
...the students' thoughts about Aman-Jean's painting of Hesiod and the Muse (link here). I show it most years in the Myth class, and I think this year's comments about it were especially good. It's also a nice reminder of my years in Los Angeles, during which I came across this painting in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
3/11: finally
...the forsythia is blooming. Its flowers are later than the other forsythia bushes on the ridge, so I had begun to think that it might not blossom at all this year. I'm glad I was wrong.
3/10: falling
...when I got out of the car at the end of the day was not a good thing. But I was glad that I was at home when I did it (rather than school), that it didn't damage my clothes, that I was wearing my wrist brace (so that I didn't further damage my wrist), and that my shirt had long sleeves (so even though the cut is bad, it didn't get dirty).
3/9: reading
...Richmond Lattimore's translation of Hesiod's Theogony in preparation for tomorrow's Myth class. It's the version through which I first encountered the Theogony (back in 1988 I think?), but I've used different translations when I've taught the text. Re-reading it now makes me realize why I liked the poem so much when I first encountered it those many years ago.
3/8: visiting
...the flowering plum trees in the woods on the ridge. It is a good year for them, and Chris and I spotted many that we did not know about (or did not remember from 2021, the last unexpectedly robust plum year when we did a survey).
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