February 2022 Summary

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I’m all in on Bullet Journaling. Still exporting from Google Calendar, Trello, and Bear notes.
Taught Lydia the rules of chess.
First hike with Suzy. All six of us went up and down Rainbow Mountain for a couple hours.
Continued juggling. Already met 2022 goal by juggling 3 balls for 1 min 6 sec.

The two major fairy tale plot structures (separation and reunion of husband/wife or parent/child) are present in the Gospel: the Father is reunited with His children, the Bride is reunited with Christ. (Literary Life podcast)
Medievals didn’t become Greek or Roman, they synthesized and expanded. (Online Great Books podcast #148)
Constraints are enabling: cars, art, marriage.
Documentaries and textbooks are secondary sources. (Scholé Sisters podcast)
Language has historically been and should be the center of education, not history. (Angelina Stanford)
History is not beautiful. Language is beautiful. (Stanford)
Myths, fables, fairy tales, Bible stories are the gateway to the Great Books. (Stanford)
Classics say society is man writ large. Moderns say man is society writ small. (New Humanists podcast #8)
If we are just cause and effect machines, reason is an illusion. (New Humanists #8)
Plutarch and Herodotus made some distinction between myth and reality (e.g. Plutarch wrote there was no proof Lycurgus existed)
Hammurabi’s and Draco’s law codes prescribed death for every crime. The Mosaic Law was more lenient toward petty crimes.