I woke up this morning to one of the most breathtaking sights - a snow covered homestead. I love snow and am so thankful that God has allowed us to retire in a place that usually gets lots of it!! I am looking forward to many more years of waking up to snow, Lord willing.
On a different note, I had my first Great Books class Monday night. This class is sponsored by Dr. Shanon Brooks with Face to Face With Greatness Seminars. During this class we are reading works by Plato, Aristophanes and Aristotle. I have already read through most of the suggested readings but Dr. Brooks gave a helpful hint Monday that was really awesome. He said that using cliff notes, spark notes, etc... to give you a background as to what some of these difficult readings mean can be very helpful in understanding them. He was right!! Before I began reading Lysistrata, I printed several different summaries from the computer and read those first before I dived into this play by Aristophanes. It made the reading so much more enjoyable and I didn't stop reading for two hours (other than to look up a few words). I will definitely do this with all of my Great Books readings from now on until I am better able to understand them. I already have the next set of summaries ready to go for Aristotle's Ethics which I should finish today. Lysistrata is pornographic in nature (Dr. Brooks warned of that) but what has struck me the most is how unpleasant it is to read about crass, flirting, unfeminine, controlling women. This play does a great job of making these type of wormen very distasteful to read about. It does the same for wimpy, unchivalrous, impure men. Unfortunately, our culture today seems to want to follow the Greeks into this same methodology. May we wise up soon!!
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