One of the appeals of teaching, at least for me, is the opportunity it gives me to learn from my students. Take today for instance. Students Presentations About Ancient Greece My last class of the day was a “World History” class for a small group of 3rd year GSE (Global [Read more…]
Went to the cinema to see Operation Mincemeat yesterday. Here are some “reflections” prompted by what I saw. Operation Mincemeat is a 2021 British film directed by John Madden, who also directed Shakespeare in Love and Captain Morelli’s Mandolin. It’s set mainly in London in 1943, at a crucial turning point in the [Read more…]
At midday I set off with the Mrs to accomplish one of our goals for the Golden Week period – walk to the Botanical Garden which I had never visited heretofore even though it’s in our neck of the woods. The Hiroshima Botanical Garden is located up a hill in [Read more…]
Forget about Brian Tracy’s frogs or Nicholas Chamfort’s toads that I alluded to in a recent post on the Hive blockchain. With Saturn exalted in Capricorn it is time to emulate Old Man Time and swallow a few toddlers instead. It takes discipline and an eye for the long term benefits to grind your way [Read more…]
Just about every morning for the last five years I have read the daily meditation in The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman. I blogged about a couple of the readings here (“You Don’t Have To Stay On Top Of Everything) and here (“On Clarity: Aliquo Respiciat”). However, [Read more…]
In 1619 Toyotomi Hideyoshi appointed one of his trusted retainers, Asano Nagaakira, Daimyo of Hiroshima. On arriving in Hiroshima, Asano Nagaakira ordered one of his own retainers, warrior and master of the tea ceremony Ueda Soko, to lay out a garden for his villa. The idea was to create the illusion of a “miniature [Read more…]
What on earth does Julius Caesar have to do with the coronavirus? Well, in Act Two, Scene Two of Shakespeare’s play, Caesar’s wife, Calphurnia, feels it is too risky for Caesar to go out to the Forum that day and urges him to stay at home. Staying at home is [Read more…]
One of the colleges I work at as a freelance English instructor resumed classes on Monday 11th May after a one month delay to the start of term due to the coronavirus pandemic. Each college has developed its own remote teaching strategy. In the case of this college, the staff [Read more…]
This is me, aged 9, on a trip to Stonehenge with my Dad. Later that day we drove down to the New Forest and camped there for the night. I wanted to see the Rufus Stone, but it was rather a disappointment, especially after Stonehenge! That evening we put up Dad’s army [Read more…]
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