Looking forward to our "Enlightenment Now" course beginning next week.
We'll be reading
- The Enlightenment: A Very Short Introduction
- Why Grow Up: Subversive Thoughts for an Infantile Age
- Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
That's a lot, but summer always looks long from the vantage of mid-May. We'll do what we can. Best to err on the side of ambition and more light.
Mehr Licht! "More light!" would have been terrific haiku-poetic dying words for the great polymath Goethe, more stirring than what he actually said. "Do open the shutter of the bedroom so that more light may enter."
Oh well. They can't all be gems. But literally parting the curtains to let the light in is exactly how I begin each dawn's quest for enlightenment these days. We don't bound out of the house first thing anymore, my dogs and I, since my discovery that they're not the morning persons I'd mistaken them for... and since we installed all those lovely pellucid new windows.
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Postscript, 8 a.m.-They're still snoozing...
Looks like some great habits there!!
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