Musings
These are the short articles from the weekly Mount Hope Lutheran School Newsletter. Topics include poems, paintings, great literary works, and the philosophy of classical education. You can browse through past articles here on the website, and you can subscribe to receive new ones in your inbox using the form on this page.
The Cathayan Thank-Your-Parents Police
“there is a public office which has no other charge but that of punishing unnatural children, who are proved to have acted with ingratitude towards their parents.”
The Fir Tree and the Bramble
Although Aesop was a Greek pagan, many of his Fables clearly illustrate the truths of life in this world.
“Give Him the Great Things”
“Do not seek how he will live a long life here, but how he will live a boundless and endless life there. Give him the great things, not the little things.”
The Ivy Green
The brave old plant, in its lonely days, shall fatten upon the past: For the stateliest building man can raise, is the Ivy’s food at last.
A Hymn to God the Father
Who more can crave than thou hast done? That gav’st a Son, to free a slave, first made of nought; with all since bought.
Holy Sonnet X
You only get to die once. Practice scorning death now so that you regard it with the proper contempt when the time comes.
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