Erik Geraldsson

Studying: Greek, Latin, Gaelic, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Hungarian, Yiddish, Japanese, Chinese

@jswriter65 I haven't seen the movies, but have the novels The Hustler and C of M on my list

@WorldWatching3 I really liked the movie of COLOR OF MONEY. Scorsese made it known they were doing their own story but bought the rights so Tevis could make a few bucks. The Tevis novel is SO different, a sobering look at that kind of life. The Coen brothers could adapt it faithfully.

Walter Tevis, quality fiction writer who didn't get enough publicity.

Happy to announce this little event: A Panel of Curious Catholic Converts: Selections from the William Klimon Collection of Catholic Convert Literature Register through the link below: ihe.catholic.edu/event/a-panel-…

I've picked up quite a few new followers in the last couple of months, so I thought I'd post a little introduction. I'm a Catholic father of ten, homeschooling and trying to make cool things in the Shenandoah area of Virginia. We live on a little homestead, but we don't do much real homesteading - we have some chickens and a handful of goats, and do some feeble attempts at gardening. But we still have to buy most of our food from the store or farmer's market, unfortunately. My background is military: I enlisted in the Navy at 17 to become a SEAL, but got dropped from BUD/S for heatstroke in 2003. After my Navy enlistment I switched to the Army and went through the pipeline to Ranger Regiment. I served 4 years as a team leader in 3rd Ranger Battalion, deploying to Afghanistan 4 times from 2009 - 2013. After I got out I built a tiny house on a trailer and we hit the road, living nomadically as I tried some different things. I ended up landing back in my native Virginia, and spend several years working close protection overseas in Iraq and East Africa. We were homeschooling our young children at the time, and I knew I wanted to be more available to build a more robust home environment and input more with my children's In 2017 I began teaching at the small private school my older children attended (I had 6 by this point). I was thrilled to teach and to finally be able to spend significant time with my children, contributing to their education at the level I always wanted to. It was a major pay-cut, though, and with my salary falling far short of my monthly bills with a family of 8 and 1 more on the way, I decided to turn my long-time hobby of calligraphy, illuminated art, and bookbinding into a side-business and so I started Tamburn Bindery to specialize in unique artistic texts and medieval-style books. I've been doing that now for 7 years. Now we host a little forest school on our property for pre-school ages, and I spend my time doing classical and adventure-based education for my kids, helping with the forest school, and working on illuminated and artistic edition book projects, as well as a bit of calligraphy on the side when I can. I also love building things, and I'm often working on fort projects in the woods with the kids. My X account is mostly a stream-of-consciousness recording of different projects I'm working on and dives into mythology and European/American cultural patrimony topics. tamburnmanor.com

"Ferenc Hörcher...wants to challenge the progressive empire of justice. He wants to raise up Prudence—practical reasoning, Aristotle’s phronesis—as the conservative virtue par excellence... he wants to make prudence.. the basis of a political philosophy of conservatism."(Hankins)

Another week, another chance to invite you all to learn about our literary programs at @stthomashouston Learn more. Link in the next post.

For my homeschooling friends...

@jswriter65 The two that really stand out, and that I've thought about often, are that one and Echo, where the brain patterns are recorded

@WorldWatching3 Found his short story collection fairly recently. But "Rent Control" stuck with me after reading it decades ago. It's about an apartment where time stands still when a man and a woman touch. Most writers would've made it either too cute or too depressing, but he nailed it.

Aramaic will be extinct within 50-100 years. Once Aramaic is gone, we will lose a rich library of biblical interpretation & ancient Christian history. Assyrians are the last people who speak it fluently. SAVE ARAMAIC!

Watched The Last Waltz (1978). Excellent film. Included some beat poets. Michael McClure read the Intro to Canterbury Tales well, but I was disappointed it included Ferlinghetti's childishly blasphemous Loud Prayer ("hollow be," etc). But in the film, at least, it was followed as a rebuke (probably unintentionally) with Dylan singing his Forever Young: May God bless and keep you always May your wishes all come true May you always do for others And let others do for you...

The subject of our podcast episode that will be recorded and filmed tomorrow. Here’s one we did earlier. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/its…

@AroucaPress Great! Thanks

@WorldWatching3 I will hope within the next few months!

.@AroucaPress Do you know when Denis the Carthusian Psalms Vol VI will be out?

Just in case you were wondering if The Lord of the Rings is pagan or Christian. . . . it's rooted in paganism baptized by the Catholic Church and Catholic theology. @HumanEvents amazon.com/J-R-R-Tolkiens…

We'd be grateful to anyone and all who could help Allen Guelzo and I promote our new Substack, The Golden Thread, which is meant to interest readers and support teachers of our 2-vol. work. We are trying to bring back the study of Western civilization after 40 years of neglect. goldenthread.substack.com @JeremyTate41 @CLT_Exam @EncounterBooks @firstthingsmag @NASorg @ClaremontInst @ufhamilton @MadisonProgram

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We still have open seats for our inaugural year. The faculty lined up to teach our literary non-fiction courses will be the best of the best, and I look forward to announcing them in the late spring.

The first one appears on 29th March, the other two have been published recently.

Good thing I bought this a couple of weks ago

It gets more horrific...