Thursday 6:21 PM

 Four hours of online teaching tonight!

École Harrison in thé PM

 

It’s Autumn outdoors.

Indoors, it is grade 2.

French immersion.

VMHS in the AM…

 Floating.

Thursday 6:52 AM

 Because of the Monday holiday, it feels like Wednesday.

Bins

 I saw stars on account of this:

Sorry.

I also put out the blue bin.

Reading

 Fragments:

—El moderno cree vivir en un pluralismo de

opiniones, cuando lo que hoy impera es una

unanimidad asfixiante.

—Modern man believes he lives amidst a pluralism of

opinions, when what prevails today is a stifling

unanimity.

Virtues are no less contagious than vices. 

the ablest young people of this place have gone away to receive a college education, which has given them a “professional status” too often understood as a license to become the predators of such places as this one that they came from.

Giving in to anger, says Ephrem the Syrian, leads straight to hell. Christ endured every insult so that we could be preserved from wrath.

Do not keep anger in your soul. Do not hold fury in your soul. You have no power over your soul except in doing what is good.

If pains be a pleasure to you, profit will follow.

Padre nuestro que estás en el cielo,

santificado sea tu nombre;

venga a nosotros tu reino;

hágase tu voluntad así en la tierra como en el cielo.

El pan nuestro de cada día dánoslo hoy;

y perdónanos nuestras deudas,

así como nosotros perdonamos a nuestros deudores;

y no nos dejes caer en la tentación,

mas líbranos del mal.

Amén.

One step, and lo! the Cross stands gaunt and long

Detachment. How hard it is! Oh, to be fastened by

nothing but three nails and to have no more feeling

in my flesh than the Cross I

Who cannot condemn without fear cannot appreciate

without foreboding.

Getting there

 I could be finished this weekend.

Vincent Massey High School

 Vincent Massey High School, established 715 BC.

Speech is very often with us, as the Frenchman defined it, “the art of concealing thought.”

The school has a Chinese club.

but it seems clear that he was also in a mood which thirsted for glory, though in him that glory would always have been identical with honour.

The thirteenth century was certainly a progressive period; perhaps the only really progressive period in human history. But it can truly be called progressive precisely because its progress was very orderly.

Biology. I watched a video about the fellows who described the structure of DNA.  Fascinating except for the atheism of the characters in the story.

Frank Vaughan says that the Alberta Separation Referendum is likely to fail.  I hope he is wrong but current events have disappointed me these past few years, so why not more bad news?  The reason I would like to see the yes side win because it could force the Ottawadians to change their ways.  Confederation has failed and the Canadian confederation needs to be reformed.  Canada should be a federation of 10 independent provinces with strictly defined powers — no have and have not classifications.  The senate should protect the rights of the provinces.  The federal government should have limited powers.  Things like education, morality, economics, health care are far too important to be in the purview of some central bureaucracy or federal politician.

One Wuxi!

ELA.

The female half of our species has sometimes been called the paragon of paradoxes, because the intuitive working of its mind is beyond the comprehension of men’s “arithmetical understanding.”

Wednesday 7:42 AM

 Are Butter Fingers an  American  version of Crispy  Crunch?   An American knock-off?  I’ll explore this question today.

Wednesday 5:27 AM

 I do my Duolingo first thing:

Normally those who take part in a political movement are

unaware of its aim, its motive, and its origin.

Put your heart aside. Duty comes first. But, when fulfilling your duty, put your heart into it. It helps.

The tripod that supported the framework of Bushido was said to be Chi, Jin, Yu, respectively Wisdom, Benevolence, and Courage. 

Learning without thought,” said Confucius, “is labor lost: thought without learning is

perilous.”

…evidently regard country places in exactly the same way as “the economy” does: as sources of economic power to be exploited for the advantage of “better” places.

If the niggard should once taste the sweetness of giving,

he would give all away.