Stoicism as a Toolkit for Modern Life

June 6, 2013

...All of Seneca and Marcus Aurelius are available online for free, but I’m partial to the Loeb Classical Library editions. They are beautiful little books which feature the original Latin or Greek on one side and English on the other. I also recommend Seneca’s Moral Essays Volumes I and II. Philosophy professor William Irvine’s A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy is also a nice introduction to the practical application of stoicis...

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How to add sparkle to your natural decorations: sugaring

Mrs. Homegrown

December 12, 2014

Domesticus, How-to

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...rs in a perfectly even coat of shining sugar have the skill down to a fine art. But sugaring sturdy things, like berry clusters or leaves, is simple. You’ll need: One egg white, furiously whipped White sugar A small paint brush Possibly a fine mesh strainer to shake the sugar though, but you can sprinkle sugar with your fingers, too. A system for holding the finished product while it dries. Things on sticks or with stems can be propped up in a tra...

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Mosaic Artist Jeffrey Bale

Mr. Homegrown

February 22, 2016

Design, Garden Design, Gardening

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...s and work. Bale captures what I think is missing in a lot of contemporary art and landscape design, a sense of the transcendent and the search for what philosopher Charles Taylor calls “fullness”. Our gardens and cities could benefit from many more spaces like the labyrinth portrayed in this short mini-doc. Best of all, in the video, Bale demonstrates how he makes his mosaics. Bale has no trade secrets. He wants us all to participate in creating...

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Weekend Linkages: Lock Me

Mr. Homegrown

November 26, 2023

Saturday Linkages

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...Turn-of-century Berlin and more on cheerful Art Nouveau postcards ‘Your wife wants to see you’: 18th-century Spanish letters seized at sea by British published online Removing a motorway to bring back the original waterway How to tie a trucker’s hitch...

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