Joshua Gibbs

Poetry: After Luther’s Commentary on Ecclesiastes

Making Up a Room For Grief by Joshua Gibbs Lest I be surprised and over thrown as though by a family of five arriving suddenly before dawn announcing a twelve year residency in my tiny house I have decided to begin making up a room for Grief I do not know when he will comeContinue reading “Poetry: After Luther’s Commentary on Ecclesiastes”

After Margery Williams

A definition… Real: that which can be faked for immediate, momentary pleasure.

Proverbial, Episode 50: Who Are You Trying To Convince?

“Violent antipathies are always suspicious and betray a secret affinity.” -William Hazlitt Who Are You Trying To Convince? is the latest episode of Proverbial and is available now.

A Simple Difference

The modern parent believes that the best way to teach a child responsibility is to give the child a number of costly gifts and tell the child not to ruin or break the gifts. The classical parent believes the best way to teach responsibility is to require a child to perform tasks that are productiveContinue reading “A Simple Difference”

Inevitable

If you don’t have a police, you must have some organized group of people who keep a police from forming, and the people who keep a police from forming are the police.

Teaching The Comedy

When teaching the Comedy, it is often the same student who claims that “all sin is the same in God’s eyes” that also most heartily objects to Dante’s insinuation that gluttony is worse than lust.

Self-Portrait In A Very Old Mirror At The Met

Going Max Fischer

I will say this about Do Not Allow Virtual Learning To Steal Our Snow Days, my latest for Circe: I don’t want to be a celebrity, but I am definitely shooting for “folk hero.”

Children Should Be Seen, Not Heard

And everybody is somebody’s child. Episode 49 of Proverbial is available now.

An Actual Conversation

Gibbs: How are you? Kroger cashier: I can’t complain. Gibbs: You could complain, but you don’t. That’s a virtue. Kroger cashier: Ooh, I like that.