Category: Odyssey

The Perpetual Return: Fidelity in the ‘Odyssey’

What does it mean to return? What does it mean to come home? Home is where one belongs, the people and places that are ours while we are theirs. Yet that belonging comes to its fulness only through our actively choosing it and conforming to the restrictions placed on us by dedication to a people…


Man Becomes First Double Amputee to Sail Around World After 7.5 Years at Sea—After Tragic Motorcycle Accident

Awakening after being hit by a truck while riding his motorcycle in Kona, Hawaii, Dustin Reynolds felt the bloody stump of his left arm, and instantly saw the hard road ahead, he said. The rest of his life would be difficult. Cellphone in his right hand, he had a choice to make—he chose to live….


2021 Honda Odyssey Elite

Honda’s Odyssey competes quite nicely against Chrysler Pacifica, Kia Sedona, and Toyota Sienna. It fits in the top echelon of a very competitive segment. This slightly refreshed minivan has an updated styling and some new standard advanced safety features like the rear seat reminder system. This system alerts the driver should a person or object…


Shepherding Love: On Poussin’s Poetic Landscape

Sitting on a high rock, he would sing as he gazed out to sea. … In this way Polyphemus shepherded his love with singing. —Theocritus, “Idyll XI,” trans. Neil Hopkinson Serenity rules over the meadows, peace over the sea. Clouds part as white gulls hover among rocky peaks and rich leaves. It’s in this bucolic…


Militant Ignorance Reshapes Our Schools and Culture

Meet Heather Levine, a teacher at Lawrence High School in Massachusetts. According to an article by Meghan Cox Gurdon in The Wall Street Journal, Ms. Levine is in the pedagogical vanguard, so woke that she recently bragged to a colleague: “Very proud to say we got the Odyssey removed from the curriculum this year!” That…