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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…
Nov 29, 2023
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Lynn Childress
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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…
Nov 11, 2023
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Lynn Childress
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October 2023
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…
Oct 29, 2023
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Lynn Childress
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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…
Oct 21, 2023
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Lynn Childress
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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…
Oct 8, 2023
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Lynn Childress
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September 2023
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…
Sep 8, 2023
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Lynn Childress
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August 2023
Open the Box: Take the Puppets Out, Dust Them Off, and Set Them on Their Feet
This is the beginning of a story—but not my story—it’s Fugui’s story. In 2021, I took a survey course in Chinese film taught by Anatoly Detwyler at the…
Aug 11, 2023
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Lynn Childress
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July 2023
Along the Evenlode
When I read the opening line of the Pryftan fragment in The History of the Hobbit, I immediately jumped up and left the house in search of adventure…
Jul 6, 2023
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Lynn Childress
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April 2023
Acquiring Poise
During the month when I was without internet, I started reading Kindle books. I hasten to add that this was not my Kindle. It was a gift to my son when…
Apr 30, 2023
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Lynn Childress
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March 2023
Three Beauties
1. Snow Last week it snowed in southwest England. As I snuggled under two duvets watching the large flakes falling rapidly, I started writing a poem in…
Mar 12, 2023
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February 2023
The Window in My Mind
I waited for an hour for the bus to Wells. Instead, a bus to Chepstow pulled up. The woman next to me declared, “Fine, I will go to Chepstow.” “I’m with…
Feb 19, 2023
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Lynn Childress
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Darwin Day
On my first day back in England, I visited Down House (Charles Darwin’s home) with my family. It was not my first visit and this is not my first Darwin…
Feb 12, 2023
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