A few days ago, at the park near our house, I stopped and sat on a bench. I point this out because it is highly irregular for me. I wasn’t tired, I had no book with me, no tablet in which to write, ergo, no reason to stop. Only there was a bench, the bench… Read More On Serenity, Striving, and Shall We Gather at the River
In honor of the Season, and all the accompanying stress it brings, I hunted through M.A.’s journal hoping to find something that could help us. (In case you missed it, our discovery of M.A. was first mentioned HERE.) Sure enough, we found something! Not only that, we found a most intriguing recipe for apple pie… Read More Thoughts from a Noble Woman: On Holidays and Family Dinners
I was thinking about Beauty the other day — that’s Beauty with a capital B — when that Byron piece popped into my head: She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes… Read More Thoughts on Beauty, Pigeons, and Persian Cats
We have an interesting development in our mysterious M.A.’s diary (first discussed here): it looks like she gave considerable thought into how she presented herself, clothing-wise. How many philosophers can you name spent time thinking of such things? Yeah, same here. And yet, it can be argued, it is hardly a trivial pursuit. How you dress… Read More Thoughts from a Noble Woman: On Clothing and Fashion Mishaps
As I present these meditations from our mysterious M.A., first talked about here, I find myself in a bit of a quandary. There are times she seems to contradict herself. For instance, in the passages below, you’ll see how she first tells herself to not take her home too seriously, then in the second she… Read More Words from a Noble Woman – Thoughts on Home and Hearth
As I mentioned in last week’s post, I’ve been hard at work deciphering the scribblings of our mysterious M.A., and I’m happy to report I have a few entries to present today. I’m giving you the first two I found, therefore I’m calling them the First Two Entries. (Has a nice ring to it, don’t… Read More Thoughts From a Noble Woman: M.A.’s First Entries
In a previous post, I lamented the lack of philosophical writings for women. A collection of ideas where the chief goal was to empower, embolden, and other em-words like that there. But was it true? Did we really lack such writings, or was I falling into a “poor me” mentality, as satisfying as it is… Read More Recent Discovery: the Diary of a Noble Woman
Last week in an article in the New York Times, columnist Laura Collins Hughes referred to a recent performance of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. No, not that performance. The one Hughes spoke of was at an all-girls high school. Not only were all the roles played by girls, the word “man” was changed to “girl” throughout… Read More On Philosophy, Pronouns, and Stoic Women
So you believe there is no meaning to life, everything is random and there is no purpose. What’s the harm if, just for today… You marvel at the miracle of life? You give thanks for each passing breath. What’s the harm if, just for today…
