Jan 27

Jan 27 Voices of Love and Theft

Buddhism, Classical Culture, Education, Family, Home Schooling, Literature, Music

I’m teaching Virgil again. It‘s hard to believe that it’s been ten years since I last taught this greatest of poets. Although the school room has turned into a kitchen table and the student is my fifteen year old son rather than a group of girls from London,

Jan 11

Jan 11 Shining Aspiration

Roz Haddon

Buddhism, Classical Culture

At this time of annual beginning, the old year has scarcely departed and the new is still removing his shoes in the doorway. I always spare a thought for the deity Janus, the Roman god of beginnings in this first month.