Businessman David Whyte turns to poetry to hold on to his soul in the corporate world.
Monthly Archives: November 2011
Read Blake, Stand Up to Your Boss
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged "Garden of Love", "I Am Too Alone in the World", Business, David Whyte, Rainer Maria Rilke, Songs of Heaven and Hell, Soul, William Blake Comments closed
Fired by Happy Valley, JoPa Is No Aeneas
Just as Rasselas questions Samuel Johnson’s Happy Valley, so do Penn State students find themselves questioning their own Happy Valley after the child abuse scandal. Coach Joe Paterno admired Aeneas, and many feel abandoned like Queen Dido.
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Crowd Intoxication and the Call of the Gods
Athena visiting Odysseus at a critical point in battle represents the sort of intuitive decisions that we associate with great athletes and geniuses.
The Intrusion of an Overwhelming Joy
Advent is a time for waiting and listening for a message from God. Jarman describes having once experienced it and feeling driven to find it again.
The Most Delicious Feast Ever Served
For a description of a luscious Thanksgiving feast, turn to the luncheon that Eve prepares for Archangel Raphael in Book V of “Paradise Lost.”
Among Reread Authors, Jane Austen Is #1
Readers often reread Jane Austen to reassure themselves that order can be found in a chaotic world.
