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Marcus Aurelius
History/Literature

Quotes From Meditations By Marcus Aurelius (2)

Posted on June 22, 2016 / 0 Comment

Meditations is a remarkable collection of personal reflections by the Stoic Roman Emperor, Marcus Aurelius, who reigned from 161 to 180 AD. Quote: … that the lo...

Marcus Aurelius
History/Literature

Quotes From Meditations By Marcus Aurelius (1)

Posted on August 20, 2015 / 0 Comment

From Book Two: Finally, the intelligence. Think of it this way: You are an old man. Stop allowing your mind to be a slave, to be jerked about by selfish impulse...

history
History/Quotes

Quotes From the Twelve Caesars (4)

Posted on June 1, 2014 / 0 Comment

This will be my last post on Julius Caesar (the first of the twelve Caesars). We’ll be moving on to Augustus soon enough! Julius Caesar was an enigmatic r...

history
History/Quotes

Quote From the Twelve Caesars (3)

Posted on May 17, 2014 / 0 Comment

Julius Caesar was certainly a man of paradoxes, both in his own time, and in the annals of history. Suetonius writes in The Twelve Caesars of Caesar’s app...

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History/Quotes

Quote From the Twelve Caesars (2)

Posted on May 11, 2014 / 0 Comment

The year was 49 BC. Caesar had a choice to make. Start a civil war in the Roman Republic or obey the orders of the Senate to give up his armies. Caesar was appa...

Petrarch
History/Literature

Vanishing Youth

Posted on September 11, 2013 / 0 Comment

Petrarch is known as the father of Humanism and ushered in the era of the Italian Renaissance. This passage is from Petrarch’s Letter to Posterity. It kin...

Chretien de Troyes
History/Literature

The Knight of the Cart

Posted on September 8, 2013 / 0 Comment

I read my first medieval Arthurian romance. This one is by Chrétien de Troyes called The Knight of the Cart. It’s a poem (although, the translation I read...

John Calvin
History/Literature

The Two Parts of Wisdom

Posted on September 6, 2013 / 0 Comment

Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves. But, while joined by many...

The Third Reich
History

The Three Reichs

Posted on September 2, 2013 / 0 Comment

All of us know that Hitler’s Nazi Germany was called the Third Reich. But what were the first two Reichs? I was unclear about this, so I looked it up: The...

Battle of Milvian Bridge
History

The Battle of Milvian Bridge

Posted on July 7, 2013 / 0 Comment

The institution of Christianity may well owe its existence to Constantine’s victory over Maxentius at the Battle of Milvian Bridge on October 28th, 312 A....

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Brad Severance
Brad Severance

I'm a photographer, poet, artist, Francophile, and avid reader.

Current Projects

2022 Photo Journey

To practice and improve my photography, I take a photo a day.
Check it out here: 2022 Photo Journey

A French Word a Day for 100 Days

To practice and improve my French, I’m picking a word a day and writing three sentences containing that word.
Check it out here: A French Word a Day for 100 Days

Stuff I’m Reading Now

“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” —Joseph Addison
Don’t get flabby! Read everyday. See what I’ve read in 2021 here.

Upstream by Mary Oliver
Essays by one of the most popular poets of the modern era.

The Fall by Albert Camus

The Fall by Albert Camus 
A confession for the modern man.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
The third novel of the immortal series that everyone has read except me.

Book of Hours by Rainer Maria Rilke, trans. by Anita Barrows & Joanna Macy
Inspired love poems to God.

Past Projects

The 2021 Painting & Poetry Project

Each week, my painter, Addie, and I will choose a theme upon which to write and paint. We have many exciting topics to explore, and we are excited to share our work.
Check it out here: The 2021 Painting & Poetry Project

2021 Photo Journey

To practice and improve my photography, I take a photo a day.
Check it out here: 2021 Photo Journey

The 30 Day Poetry & Painting Challenge

Each day, for 30 days, my painter, Addie, and I selected a poem (from the public domain). I wrote a poem and she painted a painting inspired by that poem. The result was an outpouring of creative energy.
Check it out here: The 30 Day Poetry & Painting Challenge

2020 Photo Journey

To practice and improve my photography, I took a photo a day for an entire year.
Check it out here: 2020 Photo Journey

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