Week Four Life Update

 

“An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.”

- Henry David Thoreau




Here's me on my early morning walk this morning. It is definitely nice to be able to walk again and the weather has been pretty glorious.  It was also nice to start the day with some outdoor light because it was a long morning of meetings  and then  teaching Plato seminar.    I taught the Lysis which is about love/friendship love. It takes place in a wrestling school and the lover/beloved relationship is very much in the foreground of the dialogue.  The class is about  2/3 guys and it is sort of funny to watch them grappling with the pervasiveness of  the relationships.   I have an excellent student from  China and a couple of weeks ago he used the  term "loveship" to describe   Parmenides and Zeno's  relationship and  I've decided to  adopt the term.    Along with Mo's  "Platocrates"  and my own realization that Plato is kind of creating his own  Marvel universe,  so I've been talking about the "Plato-verse" -  the world of the Platonic dialogues.     It was a good day. Also, a long overdue coffee with Scott Moore was a nice break between the 2 hour meeting and class.  


"Once someone has had the good fortune to share a true love affair with a Golden Retriever, one's life and one's outlook is never quite the same."   Betty White




Jeff was at his guy friend group weekend last weekend, so  I decided to go out and visit Ron and Bodhi out in Dripping Springs.  Ron kept Milo for us many times included the 2014 2 month stay in  Pune.  He and Milo had a special bond  and  Ron decided to get a golden for himself and he got Bodhi.  Bodhi is a perfect Golden.  He is  95 pounds of pure love.  It was great to catch up with Ron  and also just wonderful to get a lot of love from Bodhi who seemed to sense that I was a Golden person and leaned against me a lot and put his head in my lap and I got lots of pets.  He had just had a lavender bath which Milo used to get out at Spa Ron's.  



The end of life deserves as much beauty, care and respect as the beginning. — Anonymous




The weekend before  I went out to Bellingham for  Dad's  86th birthday.  He has definitely declined a good bit since  Thanksgiving and again while I don't think he is going to die tomorrow, he is  winding down it seems to me,  to us.    I was glad I was able to get out there to be a part of the weekend.  Christina and I did a bunch of yoga together  and we had dinners with Dad and bought him birthday tiramisu, pictured above.  Mom died almost six years ago now.  It is hard to believe more than a tenth of my life without her.  


  • Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends." — Virginia Woolf


Another highlight of the week in Waco was getting to have a surprise  drink with Lenore.  No photo, but the planets aligned that she had a free hour  when I did  so  that was fun.   Since the dialogue Lysis talked about friendship,  I used Lenore as an example of  "like to like" friendships.   We have a lot in common,  but the circumstances of our lives are rather different. but still the commonality is definitely the glue.  Here's the grumpy Nietzschean cat meme she sent me this morning. 


So, writing group in the morning,  need to get the HOPS paper more streamlined,  Teaching Philosophy class and the Euthyphro after that.  Then,  going to see  guest speaker in Lenore's feminism class  and then  heading down the high way.


So that's a brief update on the Life of Anne. 

Stay tuned. 




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