Watching Myself Die Some years back (in 2003) we took in a stray cat. Why do they always seem to show up in late fall, just before winter sets in? It had been hanging around (and getting fed) for some time and one day it showed up with two large protrusions on its hips. They…
Category: Passing Scene
Thomas Jefferson’s Recommended Reading List…
Thomas Jefferson supplied lists of recommended books in letters to Robert Skipwith in 1771 and Bernard Moore about the same time, to his nephew, Peter Carr, in 1785 and 1787, to John Minor in 1814, and to several others. The following is a distillation and synthesis of his recommendations in classical studies — history, philosophy,…