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The Sacred Spaces of Learning
Some years ago my wife and I, newly married and just starting our family, moved to a small town on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, along a tidal river flowing into the Chesapeake Bay. While conservative and deeply Southern, it was just cosmopolitan enough to support a small farmers market, which was held every Saturday… — read more
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Life of the Mind
The subject of Carl Spitzweg’s painting, The Scholar of Natural Resources, is a gentleman of means. He is well dressed; his paneled study is large and well appointed. He sits in an upholstered chair, which rests on an oriental rug thrown over a stone floor. Light streams through large mullioned windows. Deeply absorbed in his… — read more