Finding perspective for our troubled times from “A Tale of Two Cities” by Charles Dickens.
Ageless Wisdom from Charles Dickens
April 12th, 2025 Comments Off on Ageless Wisdom from Charles Dickens
Tags: A Tale of Two Cities · broken mirror · Charles Dickens · Donald Trump · metaphor · Michael Robert Dyet
Prevailing Winds and the Distant Shore of Wisdom
September 29th, 2018 Comments Off on Prevailing Winds and the Distant Shore of Wisdom
Calling on some of the great thinkers for insight into the pursuit of wisdom.
Tags: Charles Dickens · metaphor · Michael Robert Dyet · Oliver Wendell Holmes · Socrates · Thomas Jefferson · wisdom
A Christmas Carol – Scrooge Revisited in the 21st Century
December 5th, 2015 Comments Off on A Christmas Carol – Scrooge Revisited in the 21st Century
Mankind is my business! Why Dickens’ classic Christmas story still speaks to us 160+ years later.
Tags: A Christmas Carol · apathy · Charles Dickens · class system · metaphor · Michael Robert Dyet · Scrooge
Scratching the Itch of Time: An Existential Feather in the Wind
November 7th, 2015 Comments Off on Scratching the Itch of Time: An Existential Feather in the Wind
Grapping with the elusive quality of time and arriving at the conclusion that it can only be understood through metaphor.
Tags: calendar · Carl Sandberg · Charles Dickens · eternalism · feather in the wind · growing past theory · Henry David Thoreau · hourglass · metaphor · Michael Robert Dyet · Nathaneil Hawthorne · presentism · sun dial · time · water clock