5/25: ideas
Mail-art projects got put on hold this past semester, but I had some fresh ideas today and am eager to put them into action.
5/24: what a way to wake up
Almost as soon as I opened my eyes this morning, Chris asked me whether I wanted a certain book in paperback or Kindle/iPad format. Book-purchasing before breakfast!
5/23: eureka moment
A European physicist recently wrote to me with a question about Hesiod. I've been thinking about what and how I want to answer, and while I was kayaking this evening my thoughts crystallized in a breakthrough-for-me kind of way: Hesiod's epistemology is based neither on knowledge nor on belief but on hope. This is connected to ideas I've had for some time, but I don't think I've ever put it as tidily. It'll take me some time to articulate what I mean by an "epistemology of hope" and connect it to the physicist's question, but I think it really works to describe Hesiod.
5/22: mimosa trees
They're in bloom, though they've probably past their peak. I enjoyed spotting them along the roadside as I drove around town this afternoon. The baby mimosa tree in our yard got just two tufty blossoms this year; here's one of them:
5/21: electric connections
Emails both to and from my mother, my sister, and my brother, all in one day. (It's actually rare that that happens.)
5/20: loud and clear and wonderful
A whippoorwill came onto our deck in the pre-dawn hours and called. A week or two ago I could hear that one had moved closed to our house, but I hadn't expected any of them ever to come this close....
5/19: receding
The school year. It feels like much more than a week ago that I attended graduation. So much about the academic year was difficult: I'm grateful for the good things it contained and for lessons learned, but I'm relieved for it to move into past tense.
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