Visiopoetics

The Christian Science Monitor kindly features a poem, “Where did I put the night?”

In the event the night is recovered, there will be a very high reward for information leading to its return.

“if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine.” - Thoreau

Happy National Smile Week! Appropriately enough, it’s also finally the week of comprehensive exams in my graduate program, topping off the summer of studying for the comp, the whole comp, and nothing but the comp.

“All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There is no clearer ordinance of that supreme reason, often dark to us, which governs the course of man’s affairs, than that no body of men shall in the long run be able to strengthen itself at the cost of others’ weakness. The civilization and freedom of the ancient world were shortlived because they were partial and exceptional.” - T.H. Green, “Lecture on ‘Liberal Legislation and Freedom of Contract’ ”

The Lupus Foundation of Virginia Charlottesville chapter’s regular monthly meeting will be NEXT Saturday, August 7 (the first Sat. of the month) at Cville Coffee at 12-noon. Spouses, friends, and family are welcome!

These are informal, open meetings where you can come for the creative ambiance of the only place in town with a climbable turtle and Galapagos Islands mural — and stay to discuss local/regional/larger rheumatology resources, problems, and solutions.

Autoimmunity affects more Americans than heart disease or cancer, and coordination of resources critical. That’s why these meetings are open to all people who suffer from or are otherwise affected by any autoimmune disorder. We are your community resource for information and support.

Ars longa,
vita brevis,
occasio praeceps,
experimentum periculosum,
iudicium difficile.
- Hippocrates

Breaking news, and the sound track for the moment.

Are you studying for a comprehensive exam in political theory? Have you been wishing and praying for a haiku summarizing ancient/medieval, modern, and contemporary political theory in three easy lines?

Pray no longer (unless you’re a medieval scholar)!

Obey authority. Question authority. What was the question?

“I am really mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, a fact like this [purchase of a scientificky publication] can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too, as an offense against religion; that a question about the sale of a book can be carried before the civil magistrate. Is this then our freedom of religion? and are we to have a censor whose imprimatur shall say what books may be sold, and what we may buy? And who is thus to dogmatize religious opinions for our citizens? Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched?” - Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Dufief, 1814.