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Back to SearchVaster Than Empires – Le Guin
20 June 2025
Episode 6.02 - “Vaster Than Empires” - Le Guin
What does it mean to embrace “Other”? And how might we understand carpe diem if we truly…
1 year, 1 month ago
Signpost – Pretty Gardens in Paint
13 June 2025
Episode 6.01 - Signpost: Pretty Gardens in Paint
Where we’ve been and where we’re going, and we take a pause in a museum gallery, too!
…1 year, 1 month ago
Trailer: Journey 6
30 May 2025
Episode 6.00 - Trailer
Looking ahead at Season 6: Ursula K. Le Guin’s story, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas,” and all the wrestling…
1 year, 2 months ago
What I Get Wrong
23 May 2025
Episode 5.17 - What I Get Wrong
We close out the journey with a needed reflection, a look at what I’ve been doing, how it fits our colle…
1 year, 2 months ago
Writing Back 2: Getting Over Our Essay Anxiety
16 May 2025
Episode 5.16 - Writing Back 2: Getting Over Our Essay Anxiety
It’s time for the end of our carpe diem journey, and we celebrate with a c…
1 year, 2 months ago
Bellow Seizes Our Day
Season 5 Episode 38
9 May 2025
Episode 5.15 - Bellow Seizes Our Day
Sure we can philosophize, but what happens when we put carpe diem to the test in the modern world of…
1 year, 2 months ago
Rilke and Carpe Don’t Rhyme
2 May 2025
Episode 5.14 - Rilke and Carpe Don’t Rhyme
Finding carpe diem in art and literature; abandoning “seize the day” and ending in uncertainty…
1 year, 3 months ago
Carpe All Over the Place
25 April 2025
Episode 5.13 - Carpe All Over the Place
How far away are we from the original meaning of carpe diem? And does it matter?
Looking back …
1 year, 3 months ago
Star Trek: “World Enough and Time”
18 April 2025
Episode 5.12 - Star Trek: “World Enough and Time”
Can some fan-fiction teach us more about carpe diem than a classic Roman poet?
Let’s…
1 year, 3 months ago
Not Horacing Around: Ode 1.11
11 April 2025
Episode 5.11 - Not Horacing Around: Ode 1.11
Can an ancient Roman poet offer insight into carpe diem? Perhaps, but then again . . .
A…
1 year, 3 months ago