"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."
In Greek mythology, Minthe was an underworld naiad, a nymph of water, connected with the infernal river Cocytus, so I guess this could also work for #MermaidMonday. Hades, king of the Underworld, was very fond of her and she eventually became his mistress, but this didn’t escape Persephone or, according to other accounts, her mother Demeter: the nymph was eventually turned into mint, the aromatic plant we know today. She’s today’s profile on my Patreon.
Sometimes you read a book with beautiful prose and well-constructed characters but, when you put it down, you couldn’t tell the plot if your life depended upon it. Kawabata Yasunari‘s Snow Country is one of these books. Born in 1899, the author won the Nobel
I’m satisfied.Satisfied and surprised.Satisfied because this book, since reading the Peanuts as a child, is the Ultimate Achievement. Once you’ve read it, you feel you can achieve everything. You could even be the first beagle to land on the moon.And satisfied because… by God, this
The end of 2024 brought us no grand educational reckoning, no moment of consensus that we need to reimagine how adults learn. Instead, through 2025, we’ve settled into a peculiarly quiet collective exhaustion with the pandemic’s educational experiments, paired with a creeping anxiety that something
Sometimes you read a book with beautiful prose and well-constructed characters but, when you put it down, you couldn’t tell the plot if your life depended upon it. Kawabata Yasunari‘s Snow Country is one of these books. Born in 1899, the author won the Nobel
I’m satisfied.Satisfied and surprised.Satisfied because this book, since reading the Peanuts as a child, is the Ultimate Achievement. Once you’ve read it, you feel you can achieve everything. You could even be the first beagle to land on the moon.And satisfied because… by God, this
The end of 2024 brought us no grand educational reckoning, no moment of consensus that we need to reimagine how adults learn. Instead, through 2025, we’ve settled into a peculiarly quiet collective exhaustion with the pandemic’s educational experiments, paired with a creeping anxiety that something
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