Once again, it's time for the only blogging challenge I do (because my wife helps run it) April A to Z!
This year's overarching theme is: Aspiration!
I'm going to aspire to read more poetry, and (hopefully) learn to enjoy it a bit more. I checked one of the indexes, and there is at least one poem starting with every letter XZept for X and Z in T5FSOB, so that'll be pretty manageable. Maybe I can find authors that match those letters (The Great Poets Xerxes and Zeno?) or dip into The Great Books or something.
If this is your first time here, Fifteen Minute Classics is a (somewhat loosely defined) classic literature (and occasionally movies, video games, and whatever else catches my fancy) blog that started as a 2024 New Years Resolution. The first year, I worked my way through "The Harvard Classics Five Foot Shelf of Books (AKA T5FSOB) Fifteen Minutes A Day (AKA 15MAD)" reading list. Published between 1909 and 1916, The Harvard Classics was designed to give anyone who was willing to read them (even if it as only for 15 minutes a day!) the basics of a liberal education (the basic education a person needs to be a functional citizen of a democracy. Morals, some philosophy, foundational literature. Like Gen Eds if they didn't suck!).
I got through the whole list the first year (and, I think, posted every day. I didn't start tracking it until part way through), added a Star Wars blog (one year, I'll A to Z Star Wars...). It was honestly great. I learned a lot, enjoyed myself, and it's just a cool thing to have done.
Year 2, I kind of meandered around through a bunch of different stuff, did A to Z on the "Great Ideas of Western Thought", and started a third blog for random stuff that doesn't fit on the other two, and realized I should mostly stick to the classics anyway. And I kept up my streak of posting every day!
This year, I missed a random day in January (;_;).
In the meantime, I'm going to try to finish up the three books I'm hypothetically in the middle of blogging. Failing that, I can knock them off on the off days for A to Z I guess. See you all in April!
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