More Day To Dawn

My Opinion Podcast at Tennessee by Phil Oliver

A snippet of Vin Scully's last broadcast, in San Francisco 10.2.16.

"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year,” and get on with it."

Ockham's razor, Somerset Maugham, William James, and "salvation"

There's an intellectual form of self-neutering that's worse, in some ways, than the tragedy of Abelard and Heloise.

Our fourth and final Lifelong Learner's Happiness class at MTSU will glean the wisdom of Montaigne, Hume, James, Russell, Csikszentmihalyi, and Jennifer Michael Hecht. "Hang a sign that says HOME on a tree and you're done." And, Dr. Seuss: "Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.”

In search of Reality itself, we might do better to focus on lower-case realities like a well-pitched softball game or a World Series championship.

"The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy."

A better world has to be possible.

J.S. Mill recovered from overzealous homeschooling with the aid of music and poetry.

Individual & collective happiness; desire, boredom, loving life as it is.

Seneca, Stoics, Schopenhauer - if your "deeper nature" isn't happy enough, can you change it?

Come on along! Details at delightsprings.blogspot.com.

Haybron's ch8

From Daniel Haybron's "Very Short Inroduction" ch5.

Looking at "This I Believe," and the conviction of some of us that the best philosophy comes from "feet on the ground."

So said Willa Cather, via Maria Popova.

Looking back at last year's Opening Day of the academic season, as this year's approaches.

In anticipation of a new academic year, reflections on why and how we play this college game and a tip to take the time YOU need to get what college can give you.

2d installment of the Springs project, a slow-read recording of "William James's 'Springs of Delight'-the Return to Life" (Vanderbilt Press, 2001), read by author Phil Oliver.