Thoughts

Tonight in Santa Land, we continue our journey with Ebenezer Scrooge through the second reading. Here Scrooge meets Jacob Marley, seven years dead that very night, who haunts him and warns him that without visitation of three spirits he will become like him; a corporal spirit with no purpose but to wander in pain with their past chained to them.

I’ve known about Plato’s Allegory of the Cave for years, but for some reason, I only sat down to read it in full today. Isn’t that how life works? The teacher shows up when the student is ready—even if the teacher is a 2,400-year-old philosopher and the “classroom” is my own living room.