To be of use The people I love the best jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows and swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight. They seem to become natives of that element, the black sleek heads of seals bouncing like half-submerged balls. I love people who harness themselves, an…
The Greco-Roman Pantheon is made up of archetypes which have affected art, literature, and our thinking for centuries. Among the gods and goddesses with which we’ve become familiar is Venus, Aphrodite, the goddess of beauty, love, procreation, and pleasure. Botticelli’s depiction of her in The Birth of Venus is the soul of beauty. Rising from…
(Note: The following story by Tom Trusky has been preserved on this site. The original is no longer in place at the school site. As a result, a number of the original links for the January 2011 story no longer worked and needed to be updated. It’s still a good story and record and I’m…
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