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Tag Archives: Michel de Montaigne
Quote for the Day: Montaigne on the difficulty of waking young children
Since my wife started a new job, neither she nor our daughter can enjoy the luxury of sleeping in as often as before. And because Wendy leaves for work before I do, the responsibility for making sure Sylvie is up, … Continue reading
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Tagged Lori Gottlieb, Michel de Montaigne, parenting, Stoic philosophy, Stoicism, Sylvie, Wendy
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Happy Birthday, Sylvie Inez: A selection of photographs taken by little Ms. Sylvie; & Quote for the Day: Montaigne on the aim of parenting
In honor of my daughter’s 3rd birthday (which is today), I publish a selection of photographs she herself has taken over the past year. Sylvie very deliberately sets up frames; and for every dozen or so pictures she takes, she … Continue reading
Quote for the Day: Montaigne on final tasks
I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still less of my unfinished garden. – Michel de Montaigne from “That to Philosophize is to Learn to Die” in the Essays. Montaigne is mocking a man … Continue reading
Montaigne in a Small Town
I accidentally left my much beloved cheap translation of Montaigne’s Essays on top of a Redbox that I was holding Sylvie up to so she could make her own selection (as she insists). The book nowhere had my name in it, … Continue reading
Quote for the Day: Montaigne on living in the moment
When I walk alone in the beautiful orchard, if my thoughts have been dwelling on extraneous incidents for some part of the time, for some other part I bring them back to the walk, to the orchard, to the sweetness … Continue reading
A Eulogy for Borders
When I heard the news that Borders bookstore is going out of business, the first thing that I thought of is Kanye West’s song “All of the Lights.” A new footnote is required for future generations. Public visitation/ We met … Continue reading
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Tagged Alain de Botton, All of the Lights, Auckland, Borders, Donald Frame, How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer, Kanye West, Michel de Montaigne, New Zealand, Sarah Bakewell, Stoic philosophy, Stoicism, Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Consolations of Philosophy
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