I had a discussion with someone many years ago about why I wanted two princesses to be familiar with the literary classics from which there were derived the 5′ Shelf of Books aka Harvard Classics. After all, the contention was, everything they need to learn they do at school. After I picked up my jaw from the ground in dismay, I just never addressed the topic with that person again.
Finding the Good by Michael Doyle The culture of reading has become depleted Ill spoken of almost if no longer needed The words read teach us how to discern There is so much out there to learn It's a glory of the human soul to understand fiction The truths laid out in well told depiction Imagination knows us fully through these pretenses Teaching us to come to know through all of our senses There is a continuity of perceptions of consistency And much to be gained through verbal historicity The experience and wisdom to be heard and seen Are the best of things that come to be human beings Shakespeare's "The Tempest" brings a world of imagination Created in songs, sonnets, books and plays of creation Some of these are things to remember and others not But then how should you choose which should be forgot There is on certainty without any hesitation That is that most important things require questions Implicit in its all is the finding of the good To the greatest extent to which we've understood "The future," said Churchill," though imminent is obscure" It's only through its resolution does it become secure Neglected though it is too often in the tainted ways of man Each of us learns through exposure and then does as we can The principles learned from classic literary fiction Are applicable to life's many mysteries and frictions Despite all the daily smoke that comes from confusion The story teller lifts the veil from our illusions There is a right and wrong opened to investigation Visible to us in our life's many and varied observations The imaginary world somehow rises above the commotion Artistically putting choices of reasons and emotions Education draws out a keen role for the capable In putting forth truths that make us more able It is these assertions of our every nuanced meaning That make each of us best as humans sincerely being (c) May 5, 2020 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
