Veritas et Virtus

Daniel Gibson

The Official Blog of Columbus Classical Academy

Today is the last day of Winter.  I wonder, will you miss it after it’s gone? The dazzling white blankets of snow, the glassy surfaces of frozen ponds and creeks, the skeleton trees; sledding and building snow forts, then curling...

Well, today is St. Patrick’s day.  As you probably know, it is often associated with parades, celebrations of the Irish, the color green, leprechauns, four leaf clovers, and quite a bit of talk about good luck. I suspect St. Patrick...

A final thought on daylight savings time: Why the word “saving”? When we adjust the clocks, we’re not saving daylight or time, we’re just adjusting our lives to better align with it. We’re waking up and going to bed more...

I have another question for you: Why daylight savings time?  Why not night darkness savings time?  Why try to maximize our time in the light rather than in the darkness? Of course, the politicians give us practical reasons: More daylight after the workday or...

Well, on Sunday morning, we moved the clocks ahead an hour.   Apart from the curiosity of why we do such a thing, do you ever wonder, what happened to that hour?  Did we just skip it and jump forward...

A thesaurus will tell you that the opposite of attention is inattention—that is, the failure to pay attention. But that’s a little misleading. Unless we’re asleep or unconscious, we’re never really inattentive. We’re just distracted. In other words, you cannot...

Have you ever spent any time with someone who is always looking at himself—in a mirror, in a store window, in anything he can find that will reflect his image back to him so he can check himself out one...

When we decide what we will pay attention to, we don’t just make a choice about what to focus on—we actually make a choice about who we will become. Paul, in his letter to the Romans, makes very clear the...

Alright, everyone, now pay attention.  This week, we are going to turn our attention to, well…paying attention. Albert Einstein is credited with observing that, “[a]ny man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the...

Winning isn’t everything, and cheaters who think so only hurt themselves.  But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t compete to win.  In Pauls’ letter to the Corinthians, he’s quite clear: “Do you not know that in a race all the runners...