11/8: something I saw

A V of geese heading across the sky this morning.

11/7: something Chris saw

A V of geese against the moon.  I didn't see it, but I'm glad that he did (and that he told me about it).

11/6: a forced break

...from work.  When I got home, we had no power in the house.  So we went out for a leisurely dinner, and by the time we returned the power was back on.  It was nice to have an excuse to pause for awhile, but it was also nice to have the electricity back in order to do some evening work.

Also a forced break of sorts:  an afternoon discussion with students about Perpetua's Journey.  Though it was "work," everyone who was there was there by choice, and we just spent an hour focusing on words and images for nothing other than the pleasure of focusing on words and images.

11/5: rising sunlight

...on the water.  I stopped at the pier on my way to work.

11/4: words and images

I started the morning by watching a video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5PNz-aPKoE) that pairs Ancient Greek words with a modern staging of a choral ode from Sophocles' Antigone.

This afternoon I talked with a colleague and friend about an ekphrasis project we're doing together.

And this evening I finished working through the images in the graphic novel version of the Passio Sanctarum Perpetuae et Felicitatis.

11/3: morning and afternoon

A morning paddle on the lake, and an afternoon spent working through the photographs I took on the water.

11/2: Jasper

I did something I rarely do:  set my alarm for a Saturday morning.  I wanted to leave the house by 10 so that Chris and I could be in Jasper by lunchtime.  The place we had planned to eat was too crowded, so we found homey cafe where we got warm coffee (served in 1970s cups), corn fritters, and grilled cheese.  Grilled cheese is a vegetarian go-to choice on the road, but the corn fritters were a nice surprise.  Then we poked around in a thrift shop, where I found a vintage Smoothie Mixer and Measure, and headed on to Triple Falls, a new-to-us waterfall.

11/1: original and translations

Today I had some extra time and so got to work on a translation-comparison assignment for next week.  I got to choose a Greek passage from Sophocles' Antigone and think about how to explain its workings to a class of students who (with one exception) don't know Greek.  And then I got to compile published English translations of the passage for students to compare/contrast.  This is all a good kind of work.