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SUMMARY:Fairy Tale Church: Rikki-Tiki-Tavi
DESCRIPTION:Morals and messages are passed down from generation to generation through myths in the forms of fairy tales\, legends\, tall tales\, folklore and fables. This monthly series uses fairy tales on Sunday morning to enable St. John’s alumni to discuss the moral lessons contained within short stories that we tell our children. We call it “Church” because it’s a time for us to reflect on our values together. We used fairy tales because they are generally accepted as fantasy\, thus allowing us to speak of magic we all call magic. And they’re awfully short and easy to read in the 15 minutes before seminar. \nCurrently\, the program is focused on classics like Aesop’s Fables\, the Brothers’ Grimm\, Uncle Remus\, Hans Christian Andersen and stories that are in the public domain. We hope you’ll join us for one week or the whole series! \nFebruary 22 – Rudyard Kipling: Rikki-Tikki-Tavi  \nTHIS is the story of the great war that Rikki-tikki-tavi fought single-handed\, through the bathrooms of the big bungalow in Segowlee cantonment. Darzee\, the tailor-bird\, helped him\, and Chuchundra\, the musk-rat\, who never comes out into the middle of the floor\, but always creeps round by the wall\, gave him advice; but Rikki-tikki did the real fighting. \nMarch 29 – Hans Christian Andersen: The Steadfast Tin Soldier \nThere were once five-and-twenty tin soldiers. They were all brothers\, born of the same old tin spoon. They shouldered their muskets and looked straight ahead of them\, splendid in their uniforms\, all red and blue. \nThe very first thing in the world that they heard was\, “Tin soldiers!” A small boy shouted it and clapped his hands as the lid was lifted off their box on his birthday. He immediately set them up on the table. \nAll the soldiers looked exactly alike except one. He looked a little different as he had been cast last of all. The tin was short\, so he had only one leg. But there he stood\, as steady on one leg as any of the other soldiers on their two. But just you see\, he’ll be the remarkable one. \nApril 26 – Classic: The Three Little Pigs \nOnce upon a time there was an old mother pig who had three little pigs and not enough food to feed them. So when they were old enough\, she sent them out into the world to seek their fortunes. \nMay 31 – Charles Perrault: The Master Cat; or\, Puss in Boots or in French \nUn meunier ne laissa pour tous biens\, à trois enfants qu’il avait\, que son moulin\, son âne et son chat. Les partages furent bientôt faits; ni le notaire ni le procureur n’y furent point appelés. Ils auraient eu bientôt mangé tout le pauvre patrimoine. L’aîné eut le moulin\, le second eut l’âne\, et le plus jeune n’eut que le chat. \nThere was a miller whose only inheritance to his three sons was his mill\, his donkey\, and his cat. The division was soon made. They hired neither a clerk nor an attorney\, for they would have eaten up all the poor patrimony. The eldest took the mill\, the second the donkey\, and the youngest nothing but the cat.
URL:https://sjcgi.com/event/fairy-tale-church-rikki-tiki-tavi/
LOCATION:https://us06web.zoom.us/j/4075838760?pwd=S1sRwwqUQMFDtIihbeZf3mHCPgsCRB.1
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SUMMARY:Fairy Tale Church: Little Red Riding Hood
DESCRIPTION:Morals and messages are passed down from generation to generation through myths in the forms of fairy tales\, legends\, tall tales\, folklore and fables. This monthly series uses fairy tales on Sunday morning to enable St. John’s alumni to discuss the moral lessons contained within short stories that we tell our children. We call it “Church” because it’s a time for us to reflect on our values together. We used fairy tales because they are generally accepted as fantasy\, thus allowing us to speak of magic we all call magic. And they’re awfully short and easy to read in the 15 minutes before seminar. \nCurrently\, the program is focused on classics like Aesop’s Fables\, the Brothers’ Grimm\, Uncle Remus\, Hans Christian Andersen and stories that are in the public domain. We hope you’ll join us for one week or the whole series! \nJanuary 25 – Brothers Grimm: Little Red Riding Hood \nFebruary 22 – Rudyard Kipling: Rikki-Tikki-Tavi \nMarch 29 – Hans Christian Andersen: The Steadfast Tin Soldier \nApril 26 – Classic: The Three Little Pigs \nMay 31 – Charles Perrault: The Master Cat; or\, Puss in Boots or in French
URL:https://sjcgi.com/event/fairy-tale-church/
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SUMMARY:Sigmund Freud: The Second Part of Beyond the Pleasure Principle
DESCRIPTION:Nov 24 6pm mt \nWe’re more than just the avoidance of unpleasure or production of pleasure. We’ll be conquering the second half of Sigmund Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle – Section Five through the end! We’d love you to join\, even if you missed the first half! \nhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76031 \n  \n“Many of us will also find it hard to abandon our belief that in man himself there dwells an impulse towards perfection\, which has brought him to his present heights of intellectual prowess and ethical sublimation\, and from which it might be expected that his development into superman will be ensured. But I do not believe in the existence of such an inner impulse\, and I see no way of preserving this pleasing illusion. The development of man up to now does not seem to me to need any explanation differing from that of animal development\, and the restless striving towards further perfection which may be observed in a minority of human beings is easily explicable as the result of that repression of instinct upon which what is most valuable in human culture is built.”\n― Sigmund Freud\, Beyond the Pleasure Principle
URL:https://sjcgi.com/event/sigmund-freud-the-second-part-of-beyond-the-pleasure-principle/
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SUMMARY:Sigmund Freud: Beyond the Pleasure Principle
DESCRIPTION:Nov 10 6pm \nSigmund Freud Beyond the Pleasure Principle \nhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76031 \n  \n“Many of us will also find it hard to abandon our belief that in man himself there dwells an impulse towards perfection\, which has brought him to his present heights of intellectual prowess and ethical sublimation\, and from which it might be expected that his development into superman will be ensured. But I do not believe in the existence of such an inner impulse\, and I see no way of preserving this pleasing illusion. The development of man up to now does not seem to me to need any explanation differing from that of animal development\, and the restless striving towards further perfection which may be observed in a minority of human beings is easily explicable as the result of that repression of instinct upon which what is most valuable in human culture is built.”\n― Sigmund Freud\, Beyond the Pleasure Principle
URL:https://sjcgi.com/event/sigmund-freud-beyond-the-pleasure-principle/
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SUMMARY:Monday Seminar: Twelfth Night Act III\, IV & V
DESCRIPTION:October 27 – 6pm \nFeel free to join even if you missed the first part! \nSebastian (Act 4\, Scene 3) \nThis is the air; that is the glorious sun;\nThis pearl she gave me\, I do feel’t and see’t;\nAnd though ‘tis wonder that enwraps me thus\,\nYet ‘tis not madness. Where’s Antonio\, then?\nI could not find him at the Elephant:\nYet there he was; and there I found this credit\,\nThat he did range the town to seek me out.\nHis counsel now might do me golden service;\nFor though my soul disputes well with my sense\,\nThat this may be some error\, but no madness\,\nYet doth this accident and flood of fortune\nSo far exceed all instance\, all discourse\,\nThat I am ready to distrust mine eyes\nAnd wrangle with my reason that persuades me\nTo any other trust but that I am mad\nOr else the lady’s mad; yet\, if ‘twere so\,\nShe could not sway her house\, command her followers\,\nTake and give back affairs and their dispatch\nWith such a smooth\, discreet and stable bearing\nAs I perceive she does: there’s something in’t\nThat is deceivable. But here the lady comes. \n  \nMs. Stafford Wood is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. \nTopic: GI Chapter: Alumni Association\nEvery week on Mon\, until Dec 1\, 2025\, 8 occurrence(s) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/84010232809?pwd=xo39QtRb6OjaUfzQfIE4a7F2n5KWJn.1 \nMeeting ID: 840 1023 2809\nPasscode: 453261 \n— \nOne tap mobile\n+17193594580\,\,84010232809#\,\,\,\,*453261# US\n+12532050468\,\,84010232809#\,\,\,\,*453261# US \nJoin instructions\nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/meetings/84010232809/invitations?signature=mqSINi5AWQmFwjhJ-Ueftvsc9F4A6KX-F6JkHPS4_5Q
URL:https://sjcgi.com/event/monday-seminar-twelfth-night-act-iii-iv-v/
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CATEGORIES:Mondays at 6pm mtn
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stafford Wood":MAILTO:art@staffordwood.com
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SUMMARY:Monday Seminar: Twelfth Night Act I & II
DESCRIPTION:October 13 – 6pm \nSebastian (Act 4\, Scene 3) \nThis is the air; that is the glorious sun;\nThis pearl she gave me\, I do feel’t and see’t;\nAnd though ‘tis wonder that enwraps me thus\,\nYet ‘tis not madness. Where’s Antonio\, then?\nI could not find him at the Elephant:\nYet there he was; and there I found this credit\,\nThat he did range the town to seek me out.\nHis counsel now might do me golden service;\nFor though my soul disputes well with my sense\,\nThat this may be some error\, but no madness\,\nYet doth this accident and flood of fortune\nSo far exceed all instance\, all discourse\,\nThat I am ready to distrust mine eyes\nAnd wrangle with my reason that persuades me\nTo any other trust but that I am mad\nOr else the lady’s mad; yet\, if ‘twere so\,\nShe could not sway her house\, command her followers\,\nTake and give back affairs and their dispatch\nWith such a smooth\, discreet and stable bearing\nAs I perceive she does: there’s something in’t\nThat is deceivable. But here the lady comes. \n  \nMs. Stafford Wood is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. \nTopic: GI Chapter: Alumni Association\nTime: Oct 13\, 2025 06:00 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)\nEvery week on Mon\, until Dec 1\, 2025\, 8 occurrence(s)\nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nWeekly: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/tZAtdumqrTkiGt3SZaun-JfTMDMYZ_9KPbF_/ics?icsToken=DMDb6ayKc1l0eZDNdQAALAAAAHWS_Pv20G0sM2u85-vBxfOPqyUyvoTy_eNuxuZcbe9a65sTElxX4RzeXy5FbwBDWJD5nLqFAOVhklpx7zAwMDAwMQ&meetingMasterEventId=TaEAR5sKQF2-IwFKlpI9ZQ\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/84010232809?pwd=xo39QtRb6OjaUfzQfIE4a7F2n5KWJn.1 \nMeeting ID: 840 1023 2809\nPasscode: 453261 \n— \nOne tap mobile\n+17193594580\,\,84010232809#\,\,\,\,*453261# US\n+12532050468\,\,84010232809#\,\,\,\,*453261# US \nJoin instructions\nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/meetings/84010232809/invitations?signature=mqSINi5AWQmFwjhJ-Ueftvsc9F4A6KX-F6JkHPS4_5Q
URL:https://sjcgi.com/event/monday-seminar-twelfth-night/
LOCATION:https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84010232809?pwd=xo39QtRb6OjaUfzQfIE4a7F2n5KWJn.1
CATEGORIES:Mondays at 6pm mtn
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stafford Wood":MAILTO:art@staffordwood.com
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SUMMARY:Monday Seminar Reschedule: Gorgias
DESCRIPTION:29-Sep \nPlato’s Gorgias \nhttps://www.gutenberg.org/files/1672/1672-h/1672-h.htm \nExcerpt: \n“Yes\, indeed\, but that was no answer to the question: nobody asked what was the quality\, but what was the nature\, of the art\, and by what name we were to describe Gorgias. And I would still beg you briefly and clearly\, as you answered Chaerephon when he asked you at first\, to say what this art is\, and what we ought to call Gorgias: Or rather\, Gorgias\, let me turn to you\, and ask the same question\,—what are we to call you\, and what is the art which you profess?”
URL:https://sjcgi.com/event/monday-seminar-gorgias/
LOCATION:https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84010232809?pwd=xo39QtRb6OjaUfzQfIE4a7F2n5KWJn.1
CATEGORIES:Mondays at 6pm mtn
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ORGANIZER;CN="julie@covalentlogic.com":MAILTO:julie@covalentlogic.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20250818T180000
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SUMMARY:Monday Seminar: Acts of the Apostles
DESCRIPTION:18-Aug \nActs \nhttps://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts%201&version=NIV \n28 \n  \nExcerpt: \nOn the next day\, their leaders\, elders\, and scribes were assembled in Jerusalem\, with Annas the high priest\, Caiaphas\, John\, Alexander\, and all who were of the high-priestly class. They brought them into their presence and questioned them\, “By what power or by what name have you done this?” Then Peter\, filled with the holy Spirit\, answered them\, “Leaders of the people and elders. If we are being examined today about a good deed done to a cripple\, namely\, by what means he was saved\, then all of you and all the people of Israel should know that it was in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazorean whom you crucified\, whom God raised from the dead; in his name this man stands before you healed. He is ‘the stone rejected by you\, the builders\, which has become the cornerstone.’ There is no salvation through anyone else\, nor is there any other name under heaven given to the human race by which we are to be saved.” Observing the boldness of Peter and John and perceiving them to be uneducated\, ordinary men\, they were amazed\, and they recognized them as the companions of Jesus.
URL:https://sjcgi.com/event/monday-seminar-acts-of-the-apostles/
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stafford Wood":MAILTO:art@staffordwood.com
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SUMMARY:Thursday Seminar: "The Souls of Black Folk" by W.E.B. Du Bois (Part III)
DESCRIPTION:14-Aug\nThe Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois \n“Of the Passing of the First-Born”\n“Of Alexander Crummell”\n“Of the Coming of John”\n“The Sorrow Songs” \nhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/408 \n80 pages \nExcerpt: \nFrom the shimmering swirl of waters where many\, many thoughts ago the slave-ship first saw the square tower of Jamestown\, have flowed down to our day three streams of thinking: one swollen from the larger world here and overseas\, saying\, the multiplying of human wants in culture-lands calls for the world-wide cooperation of men in satisfying them. Hence arises a new human unity\, pulling the ends of earth nearer\, and all men\, black\, yellow\, and white. The larger humanity strives to feel in this contact of living Nations and sleeping hordes a thrill of new life in the world\, crying\, “If the contact of Life and Sleep be Death\, shame on such Life.” To be sure\, behind this thought lurks the afterthought of force and dominion\,—the making of brown men to delve when the temptation of beads and red calico cloys. \nThe second thought streaming from the death-ship and the curving river is the thought of the older South\,—the sincere and passionate belief that somewhere between men and cattle\, God created a tertium quid\, and called it a Negro\,—a clownish\, simple creature\, at times even lovable within its limitations\, but straitly foreordained to walk within the Veil. To be sure\, behind the thought lurks the afterthought\,—some of them with favoring chance might become men\, but in sheer self-defence we dare not let them\, and we build about them walls so high\, and hang between them and the light a veil so thick\, that they shall not even think of breaking through.
URL:https://sjcgi.com/event/thursday-seminar-the-souls-of-black-folk-by-w-e-b-du-bois-part-iii/
LOCATION:Zoom Room: Every Other Thursday morning: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85319919944?pwd=sqhCAg0K9Rbup3DoFINzduyuaOIqPQ.1
CATEGORIES:Thursday at 10 am mtn
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stafford Wood":MAILTO:art@staffordwood.com
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SUMMARY:Monday Seminar: "The Souls of Black Folk" by W.E.B. Du Bois (Part II)
DESCRIPTION:4-Aug\nThe Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois \n“Of the Training of Black Men”\n“Of the Black Belt”\n“Of the Quest of the Golden Fleece”\n“Of the Sons of Master and Man”\n“Of the Faith of the Fathers” \nhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/408 \n80 pages \nExcerpt: \nFrom the shimmering swirl of waters where many\, many thoughts ago the slave-ship first saw the square tower of Jamestown\, have flowed down to our day three streams of thinking: one swollen from the larger world here and overseas\, saying\, the multiplying of human wants in culture-lands calls for the world-wide cooperation of men in satisfying them. Hence arises a new human unity\, pulling the ends of earth nearer\, and all men\, black\, yellow\, and white. The larger humanity strives to feel in this contact of living Nations and sleeping hordes a thrill of new life in the world\, crying\, “If the contact of Life and Sleep be Death\, shame on such Life.” To be sure\, behind this thought lurks the afterthought of force and dominion\,—the making of brown men to delve when the temptation of beads and red calico cloys. \nThe second thought streaming from the death-ship and the curving river is the thought of the older South\,—the sincere and passionate belief that somewhere between men and cattle\, God created a tertium quid\, and called it a Negro\,—a clownish\, simple creature\, at times even lovable within its limitations\, but straitly foreordained to walk within the Veil. To be sure\, behind the thought lurks the afterthought\,—some of them with favoring chance might become men\, but in sheer self-defence we dare not let them\, and we build about them walls so high\, and hang between them and the light a veil so thick\, that they shall not even think of breaking through.
URL:https://sjcgi.com/event/monday-seminar-the-souls-of-black-folk-by-w-e-b-du-bois-part-ii/
LOCATION:https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84010232809?pwd=xo39QtRb6OjaUfzQfIE4a7F2n5KWJn.1
CATEGORIES:Mondays at 6pm mtn
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stafford Wood":MAILTO:art@staffordwood.com
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SUMMARY:Thursday Seminar: "The Souls of Black Folk" by W.E.B. Du Bois (Part I)
DESCRIPTION:31-Jul\nThe Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois \n“Of Our Spiritual Strivings”\n“Of the Dawn of Freedom”\n“Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others”\n“Of the Meaning of Progress”\n“Of the Wings of Atalanta” \nhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/408 \n80 pages \n  \nExcerpt: \nSouth of the North\, yet north of the South\, lies the City of a Hundred Hills\, peering out from the shadows of the past into the promise of the future. I have seen her in the morning\, when the first flush of day had half-roused her; she lay gray and still on the crimson soil of Georgia; then the blue smoke began to curl from her chimneys\, the tinkle of bell and scream of whistle broke the silence\, the rattle and roar of busy life slowly gathered and swelled\, until the seething whirl of the city seemed a strange thing in a sleepy land.
URL:https://sjcgi.com/event/thursday-seminar-the-souls-of-black-folk-by-w-e-b-du-bois/
LOCATION:Zoom Room: Every Other Thursday morning: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85319919944?pwd=sqhCAg0K9Rbup3DoFINzduyuaOIqPQ.1
CATEGORIES:Thursday at 10 am mtn
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stafford Wood":MAILTO:art@staffordwood.com
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SUMMARY:Thursday Seminar: “The Clouds\,” by Aristophanes
DESCRIPTION:Join us to read “The Clouds” by Aristophanes\, even if you missed “The Birds” last week! \nWilliam James Hickie translation available on Gutenberg.\n  \nLogin on Thursday\, July 24 at: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85319919944?pwd=sqhCAg0K9Rbup3DoFINzduyuaOIqPQ.1 \n 
URL:https://sjcgi.com/event/thursday-seminar-the-clouds-by-aristophanes/
LOCATION:Zoom Room: Every Other Thursday morning: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85319919944?pwd=sqhCAg0K9Rbup3DoFINzduyuaOIqPQ.1
CATEGORIES:Thursday at 10 am mtn
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stafford Wood":MAILTO:art@staffordwood.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20250721T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20250721T193000
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SUMMARY:Monday Seminar: "Benito Cereno" by Herman Melville
DESCRIPTION:21-Jul\nBenito Cereno\nhttps://www.gutenberg.org/files/15859/15859-h/15859-h.htm#chap03\nHerman Melville\n80 pages \n  \nExcerpt: \nIn the year 1799\, Captain Amasa Delano\, of Duxbury\, in Massachusetts\, commanding a large sealer and general trader\, lay at anchor with a valuable cargo\, in the harbor of St. Maria—a small\, desert\, uninhabited island toward the southern extremity of the long coast of Chili. There he had touched for water. \nOn the second day\, not long after dawn\, while lying in his berth\, his mate came below\, informing him that a strange sail was coming into the bay. Ships were then not so plenty in those waters as now. He rose\, dressed\, and went on deck. \nThe morning was one peculiar to that coast. Everything was mute and calm; everything gray. The sea\, though undulated into long roods of swells\, seemed fixed\, and was sleeked at the surface like waved lead that has cooled and set in the smelter’s mould. The sky seemed a gray surtout. Flights of troubled gray fowl\, kith and kin with flights of troubled gray vapors among which they were mixed\, skimmed low and fitfully over the waters\, as swallows over meadows before storms. Shadows present\, foreshadowing deeper shadows to come.
URL:https://sjcgi.com/event/monday-seminar-benito-cereno-by-herman-melville/
LOCATION:https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84010232809?pwd=xo39QtRb6OjaUfzQfIE4a7F2n5KWJn.1
CATEGORIES:Mondays at 6pm mtn
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stafford Wood":MAILTO:art@staffordwood.com
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SUMMARY:Thursday Seminar: “The Birds\,” by Aristophanes
DESCRIPTION:The Birds\, Aristophanes\, 64 Pages \nExcerpt: \nWhat misfortune is ours! we strain every nerve to get to the birds\, do everything we can to that end\, and we cannot find our way! Yes\, spectators\, our madness is quite different from that of Sacas. He is not a citizen\, and would fain be one at any cost; we\, on the contrary\, born of an honourable tribe and family and living in the midst of our fellow-citizens\, we have fled from our country as hard as ever we could go. ‘Tis not that we hate it; we recognize it to be great and rich\, likewise that everyone has the right to ruin himself; but the crickets only chirrup among the fig-trees for a month or two\, whereas the Athenians spend their whole lives in chanting forth judgments from their law-courts. \nThat is why we started off with a basket\, a stew-pot and some myrtle boughs(3) and have come to seek a quiet country in which to settle. We are going to Tereus\, the Epops\, to learn from him\, whether\, in his aerial flights\, he has noticed some town of this kind.
URL:https://sjcgi.com/event/thursday-seminar-the-birds/
LOCATION:Zoom Room: Every Other Thursday morning: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85319919944?pwd=sqhCAg0K9Rbup3DoFINzduyuaOIqPQ.1
CATEGORIES:Thursday at 10 am mtn
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stafford Wood":MAILTO:art@staffordwood.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20250707T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20250707T200000
DTSTAMP:20260406T024700
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SUMMARY:Monday Seminar: "Good Country People" by Flannery O'Connor
DESCRIPTION:“Good Country People\,” by Flannery O’Connor\, 15 pages \nBESIDES THE NEUTRAL EXPRESSION that she wore when she was alone\, Mrs. Freeman had two others\, forward and reverse\, that she used for all her human dealings. Her forward expression was steady and driving like the advance of a heavy truck. Her eyes never swerved to left or right but turned as the story turned as if they followed a yellow line down the center of it. She seldom used the other expression because it was not often necessary for her to retract a statement\, but when she did\, her face came to a complete stop\, there was an almost imperceptible movement of her black eyes\, during which they seemed to be receding\, and then the observer would see that Mrs. Freeman\, though she might stand there as real as several grain sacks thrown on top of each other\, was no longer there in spirit. As for getting anything across to her when this was the case\, Mrs. Hopewell had given it up. She might talk her head off. Mrs. Freeman could never be brought to admit herself wrong on any point. She would stand there and if she could be brought to say anything\, it was something like\, “Well\, I wouldn’t of said it was and I wouldn’t of said it wasn’t\,” or letting her gaze range over the top kitchen shelf where there was an assortment of dusty bottles\, she might remark\, “I see you ain’t ate many of them figs you put up last summer.” \n 
URL:https://sjcgi.com/event/gi-alumni-seminar-good-country-people-2/
LOCATION:https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84010232809?pwd=xo39QtRb6OjaUfzQfIE4a7F2n5KWJn.1
CATEGORIES:Mondays at 6pm mtn
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stafford Wood":MAILTO:art@staffordwood.com
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SUMMARY:"St. John's College: A Year of Classics"
DESCRIPTION:St. John’s seminars offer nine profound\, rich\, and resonant readings taken from the core of the college’s distinctive curriculum. The 2025–26 gathering of readings asks challenging questions. In the community of a discussion-based classroom\, we study these texts and confront their questions together. We offer a once-a-month experience in the life of the mind\, a true source of reward for the busy executive\, stimulation for the artist\, engagement for a parent\, and all of these for those who are at work building our world on strong foundations. \n2025–26 Theme: Solitude\nSolitude is a paradox. It is a state that can be freely chosen or imposed against one’s will; it can be met with pleasure or through pain. For some\, it is the necessary condition of a reflective life\, while for others it is something to be overcome or resisted. Solitude can take place in genuine isolation or through a loneliness experienced even when surrounded by others. When should we seek solitude and when should we seek community? How do we find the balance? What are the rewards and the risks\, what is the beauty and what is broken when we find ourselves truly alone? \nMeet online or in person in Annapolis\, Maryland; Washington\, DC; or Santa Fe\, New Mexico. \nReading List for 2025–26\nSeptember: Sophocles\, Philoctetes\nOctober: Ovid\, Tristia\nNovember: Kamo no Chōmei\, Hojoki: A Buddhist Reflection on Solitude\, Imperfection and Transcendence\nDecember: Descartes\, Discourse on Method\nJanuary: William Shakespeare\, Richard III\nFebruary: Friedrich Nietzsche\, Thus Spoke Zarathustra\nMarch: Emily Dickinson\, The Poems of Emily Dickinson\nApril: Hannah Arendt\, Origins of Totalitarianism\nMay: Toni Morrison\, Jazz \nTuition\n\nIn-person tuition for Year of Classics is $1\,050 per individual seminar.\nThe tuition for the Cosmos Club Section is $1\,500\, which includes pre-seminar gatherings with refreshments.\nOnline tuition for Year of Classics is $850 per individual seminar.\nWith proof of current employment as an educator\, participants receive a fifty percent discount on seminar tuition. Discounts are available to the first 16 teacher registrants.\n\nSIGN UP NOW
URL:https://sjcgi.com/event/registration-opens-for-st-johns-college-a-year-of-classics/
CATEGORIES:St. John's Tutor-Led
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