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Under the Magnifying Glass Is Back
After a long break, I am resuming the Under the Magnifying Glass newsletter that I started in April 2021. The continuity of my research was broken when…
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Crushing a Delicate Bloom of Learning
Michaelmas term 2023 ends this week and so does “A Delicate Bloom of Learning.” As a final post, I want to call to mind all things ephemeral and…
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Virtual Silence
When you live alone, there are many hours of silence. Where I live, there is no noise from furnace fans or air conditioners, no noisy neighbors or…
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Box of Rain
An ex-friend said that she had found Paradise and invited me to visit her there. I spent three days driving from Wisconsin (on the northern border of…
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Summer Came Late
I did not go to Oxford during the first week of term. Instead, I took a long walk in the village of Blockley. The summer was chilly, and finally in…
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Socializing When Everyone Is New
This lovely image is from my friend Sans Talbot’s coloring book The Sacred Feminine, Volume 1 (2023). She is the visual embodiment of a delicate bloom…
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Returning to Oxford
Welcome to the new subscribers who joined over the summer. We are starting the third year of A Delicate Bloom of Learning. In the first year of the…
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A Delicate Bloom of Learning
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