Circe Institute Podcast Network

"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible," said Stanislaw Lec. This isn't just a proverb about riots and mobs, though. It's about our guilty pleasures. Joshua Gibbs examines.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

"Don't smile before Christmas" is a common proverb traded by veteran teachers. It is a saying which is particularly offensive to an egalitarian age. Joshua Gibbs explores.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

"You can't make everybody happy all the time," but why would any sane person try? Join Joshua Gibbs as he considers the paradoxes of human happiness.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode, Dr. Perrin sits down with author Danielle Bennett Dukes to discuss the notion of education as beatitude. They discuss the ways that the beatitudes serve as an educator's Telos and the way they prepare students to live in a world of paradox and suffering. Cafe Schole is produced for the CiRCE Podcast Network by Goldberry Studios. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

"May you live in interesting times" is a Chinese curse. Why? What's so bad about interesting things? Tolstoy is interesting, right? Joshua Gibbs investigates.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

"The art of living is to know how to enjoy a little and endure very much," claimed William Hazlitt. Join Joshua Gibbs as he mulls over this proverb.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Here in season 2, Dr. Phillips is focusing on ways of being better dads to our daughters and husbands to our wives, and here in episode two he is joined by author Christine Cohen, author of The Winter King, to discuss the power of stories to inspire and instruct us in that effort.Christine Cohen was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest. She spent most of her formative years roaming evergreen forests with her sister and a stalwart yellow lab, feeding her love of adventure a steady diet of stick forts and slingshots. Now she lives with her husband and three kids in a delightfully rural college town. When she's not writing, she pursues other creative outlets like baking sweet things and eating more than her share. The Winter King is her first novel. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Join Emily, Renee, and Karen as they discuss mankind's place in the created world. Why do we go into nature to find refreshment? Plus they discuss how being outside (on adventures, in beautiful places) has helped shape them and how it particularly helps shape the habit of paying attention. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome back to The Weight of Fatherhood, a podcast for dads who take their vocation as a father seriously. Here in the premier episode of season two, host Brian Phillips introduces the theme of the second season (the women in our lives: wives and daughters) and is joined by some of his friends and colleagues for a conversation about the challenges that come with being a girl dad and a husband. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jane Austen wrote, "The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient - at others, so bewildered and so weak - and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! - We are to be sure a miracle every way - but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting, do seem peculiarly past finding out." In this episode, Joshua Gibbs tells a single story from a difficult summer when he believed his life was ending. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

"Birds of a feather flock together." This is a hard saying for social engineers of all sorts, especially teachers and party hosts. Join Joshua Gibbs as he unpacks this surprisingly confrontational saying. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

"The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see," said Chesterton. Over the last ten years, travel has become mixed up with the self-care and wellness movement. In the latest episode of Proverbial, Joshua Gibbs attempts to save travel from modern cliches.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Join Emily, Renee, and Karen astray discuss ways to find rest from routine, using summer to prepare for fall, big picture planning and reorganizing, working on particularly habits with particular children, and more. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode of Dwell Emily, Renee, and Karen discuss how narration develops the ability to pay attention, cultivates the faculty of memory, and is a natural way to assess comprehension. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

"No man is so completely happy that something somewhere does not clash with his condition," taught Boethius. How do we live at peace with this truth? Can we? Joshua Gibbs talks himself through these questions on the latest episode of Proverbial.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

"He who has much, wants much," said Boethius. In this episode, Joshua Gibbs explains suffering and want with a story about his acquisition of an iPod in 2004.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

"Bad fortune is of more use to men than good fortune," teaches Boethius, but he doesn't mean we should learn from our mistakes. Join Joshua Gibbs as he explores this vexing saying from the great Roman philosopher. Proverbial is produced by Goldberry Studios for the CiRCE Podcast Network. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Join Emily, Karen, and Renee as they continue their discussion about the importance of family stories: how they connect us and tell us who we are -- and what to do when our stories are hard. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

"Don't burn your bridges" began as a saying of military generals on war campaigns, but is now primarily understood advice pertaining to professional relationships. Join Joshua Gibbs as he explores this timeless saying. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Join Emily, Renee, and Karen as they discuss how training our children in habits results in the development of virtue and can help our households run more smoothly. Also, they discuss when to let a teenager choose which habits to work on or not. Dwell is produced for the CiRCE Podcast Network by Goldberry Studios. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.