Driving home from work the last couple of nights it`s been noticeable how light the sky is getting. Can still see the stars (and Venus hanging very brightly on the western horizon just now) but in a month or so will virtually lose sight of them for a while.
Walking this morning and it was back to layers of clothes: two t-shirts, a sweatshirt and a thick woollen sweater,the hail battering down and a bitterly cold wind. Half an hour later,the sun was blazing down,the sweater was off and it was like a different country.
In the garden there were large bees busily working the blackcurrant bushes and sounds of hammering - progress on the shed front (as in every woman should - and shall - have one).
My book tells me that Socrates "felt passionately that the written word posed serious risks to society"
At least as interesting, it also tells me that the great philosopher was a pupil of Diotima, a woman philosopher who used dialogue to teach her students. Who`d have thought it?
me ;)
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