@amyburtner.bsky.social
Community college professor. Messy gardener.
“All the untidy activity continues, awful but cheerful.” (Elizabeth Bishop)
“All the untidy activity continues, awful but cheerful.” (Elizabeth Bishop)
Some Mary Midgley to start the day.
![From Wickedness (1984) by philosopher Mary Midgley:
“If there can be no basis of agreement on these subjects—if each of us wanders alone in a moral vacuum, spinning values out of our own entrails like spiders, making them up somehow out of our own originality, taking nothing from anybody else and passing nothing on to others—then we have ceased to be social creatures altogether. Most of the occupations that interest us must then evaporate, because they are essentially social. They depend on shared values. And we shall certainly then have no shared vocabulary in which to say what we think about actions such as devising death-camps.” [p. ix]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4ji5lykjrl7epkr6dpltyxcz/bafkreihpucrqn4dwx6hbaxb4wfhp5xdqxeojmqv33u7l4jmckd7u4efoma@jpeg)
January 31, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Some Mary Midgley to start the day.
There’s a Kay Ryan poem for every moment and feeling.
November 10, 2024 at 10:15 PM
There’s a Kay Ryan poem for every moment and feeling.
New here, transferring my lurking self from the Other Place. Obligatory cat photo. This is Henry David.
November 10, 2024 at 6:10 PM
New here, transferring my lurking self from the Other Place. Obligatory cat photo. This is Henry David.