{"id":4495,"date":"2009-05-22T09:31:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T16:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philosophyforchildren.org\/may\/"},"modified":"2009-05-22T09:31:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T16:31:00","slug":"may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plato-philosophy.org\/may\/","title":{"rendered":"May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_I-bvyBpij2c\/ShnVICHpHOI\/AAAAAAAAAO4\/PZSodtkmHng\/s1600-h\/118_1849(2).jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339533167209028834\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 299px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_I-bvyBpij2c\/ShnVICHpHOI\/AAAAAAAAAO4\/PZSodtkmHng\/s400\/118_1849(2).jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000066;\"><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><strong><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div><span style=\"color:#000066;\"><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><strong>From Blossoms<\/strong><br \/><\/span><br \/>From blossoms comes<br \/>this brown paper bag of peaches<br \/>we bought from the boy<br \/>at the bend in the road where we turned toward<br \/>signs painted Peaches.<\/p>\n<p>From laden boughs, from hands,<br \/>from sweet fellowship in the bins,<br \/>comes nectar at the roadside, succulent<br \/>peaches we devour, dusty skin and all,<br \/>comes the familiar dust of summer, dust we eat.<\/p>\n<p>O, to take what we love inside,<br \/>to carry within us an orchard, to eat<br \/>not only the skin, but the shade,<br \/>not only the sugar, but the days, to hold<br \/>the fruit in our hands, adore it, then bite into<br \/>the round jubilance of peach.<\/p>\n<p>There are days we live<br \/>as if death were nowhere<br \/>in the background; from joy<br \/>to joy to joy, from wing to wing,<br \/>from blossom to blossom to<br \/>impossible blossom, to sweet impossible blossom<em>.<br \/><\/em><br \/>Li-Young Lee<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">May Birthdays<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>May 3 <a href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/machiavelli\/\">Niccolo Machiavelli<\/a> (Italian, born 1469)<br \/>May 5 <a href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/kierkegaard\/\">Soren Kierkegaard<\/a> (Danish, born 1813) and <a href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/marx\/\">Karl Marx<\/a> (German, born 1818)<br \/>May 7 <a href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/hume\/\">David Hume<\/a> (British, born 1711)<br \/>May 9 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philosophyprofessor.com\/philosophers\/jose-ortega-y-gasset.php\">Jose Ortega y Gasset<\/a> (Spanish, born 1883)<br \/>May 18 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iep.utm.edu\/b\/butler.htm\">Joseph Butler<\/a> (British, born 1692), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iep.utm.edu\/c\/carnap.htm\">Rudolf Carnap<\/a> (German, born 1891), and <a href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/russell\/\">Bertrand Russell<\/a> (British, born 1872)<br \/>May 19 <a href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/johann-fichte\/\">Johann Gottlieb Fichte<\/a> (German, born 1762)<br \/>May 20 <a href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/mill\/\">John Stuart Mill<\/a> (British, born 1806) and <a href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/sellars\/\">Wilfrid Sellars<\/a> (American, born 1912)<br \/>May 21 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iep.utm.edu\/l\/lotze.htm\">Rudolph Hermann Lotze<\/a> (German, born 1817)<br \/>May 23 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Margaret_Fuller\">Sarah Margaret Fuller <\/a>(American, born 1810)<br \/>May 24 <a href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/whewell\/\">William Whewell<\/a> (British, born 1794)<br \/>May 25 <a href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/emerson\/\">Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/a> (American, born 1803)<br \/>May 30 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mikhail_Bakunin\">Mikhael Bakunin <\/a>(Russian, born 1814)<br \/>May 31 <a href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/sidgwick\/\">Henry Sidgwick<\/a> (British, born 1838)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From BlossomsFrom blossoms comesthis brown paper bag of peacheswe bought from the boyat the bend in the road where we turned towardsigns painted Peaches. 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