Reflections on the state of things while reading, having tea and meals

While, from reading this, I am not on the same page 

with her positions on things, I think this essay, for anyone 

who either is involved with higher ed - teaching, a student - or wants to 

understand a bit of what has happened to our world,

this essay, which is really not only about the importance of free speech

in University campuses, but about the importance of true scholarship. 

I wish that her cry for this would be answered and upheld.

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With the awakening of Spring, I feel so many of my dreams for

writing and research are also opening....

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At the same time, I can't seem to overcome the cough I have.

I have read various things and this one indicates that I

should not be worried at present. 

I am trying to follow up with my doctor, just in case....

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I had tea with a friend, the meal was really good.

I did a similar meal for dinner, with pan-fried hamburgers and 

toasted English Muffins as a bun, with cheddar and Gouda cheese

melted on top. 

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Today, Wednesday, was vegetarian.

Lots of ginger tea and reading 

They Stand Together: The Letters of C.S. Lewis to Arthur Greeves (1914-1963)

of which the introduction by Walter Hooper was well 

worth reading.  A wonderful next book after reading

CS Lewis in A Time of War.

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Only those who have read my blog for some years,

will remember the one undergraduate class I did after

I lost my job in a corporate library.

I need to find those notes and the essay that I am thinking so much about.

I remember it was about Puritans in Milton's time who were

in love with homilies of Alfred but who confused a central point/belief

he had of transubstantiation, the Catholic understanding of

the Lord's Supper being a real, repeated event, as in the Eucharist being

really the Lord's Body and Blood.

I hope to find this essay again, I know I photocopied it from a 

book from the stacks at Ottawa U.

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Meanwhile, I am astounded by the amount of reading

CS Lewis did in his youth.

I did not know the Brontes, for one, had so many books.

Fascinating. That could take a study all by itself....

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I also want to revisit this blog post by Fr. S. F. whose comments

reminded me that I want to research more on 

the same topic that the essay on the Puritans is really showing...

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My question, for many many years, even in undergrad,

when I would read Virginia Woolfe and then realize how confused she

and her friends were, and I would wonder again,

how did we get here as a people, culture and world?

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This blog post hits on a lot of it. 

For me I am most interested in not only the history of nations,

but the history of thought, and particularly the change from a world 

that was understood sacramentally to one that not only

continues to try to empty itself of meaning and history,

but believes that all meaning is man-made. 

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We shall see what I can do along these lines as time goes on...