The Odyssey

The Week in Review: 11/5-11/11

Getting Halfway There

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Learn from those who go before you...

~Fitz

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The Week in Review: 10/28-11/03

Telling a Good Story

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It's only as hard as you make it...

~Fitz

 

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Why Read "The Odyssey?"

Living through the Heroic Cycle

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We must let go of the life we have planned, 
so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

~Joseph Campbell

 

    Nobody ever told me to read The Odyssey—and that was the greatest educational travesty of my life. I first read it after High School while working at Colonial Motors in West Concord. I didn't "get it" any more than the most confused among you, but what I did do is "feel it." I felt its primordial power and emotional bareness; I felt another world, another age, and another human journey come alive inside of me. It made me feel that I was a part of long and unbroken lineage of humanity searching for truth and purpose in a world—especially my world, a world not always blessed with clarity and opportunity. I had always been the kid in the back of the class staring out the window dreaming of a better world—and scheming a way to get there. I liked to read, and we read good books in school, but I only lived in those books for the moment. Good books were like a party with a great group of friends: fun, exciting, and memorable, but not life changing. They died, most of them, the moment I closed the book; but, The Odyssey changed my life.  It showed me that wisdom is not learned, it is cultivated by deliberation and attentiveness.

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