Homeschool Dances, Hiking in the Mountains, and Burke On Beauty

In this episode, I want to talk about my eldest two sons - Josiah and Elihu - attending a dance for homeschooled teenagers this past Friday. Spoiler alert: their telling of the whole business was pure comedic gold, and had their mother and I laughing until we cried about it. Also, my brother-in-law Kris Duff came to visit us for the weekend from North Dakota. So the whole lot of us piled into our 12-passenger van and visited Rocky Mountain National Park only to realize we should have stopped for a bathroom break in Estes Park before a nearly 5-mile hike on Cub Lake Trail. In other news, I finished both 'The Princess and the Goblin' by George MacDonald and 'A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful' by Edmund Burke since last episode. Both well-deserved five stars out of five from me. And MacDonald's fantasy will merit a Series Review once I finish the other works. For this episode, we will talk briefly about Burke's foray into the realm of aesthetics, and how he talks about "that part of a beautiful woman where she is perhaps the most beautiful." Also, I have some thoughts on the most recent update regarding Elon Musk taking over Twitter. What might his reasons be for declining a seat on her Board of Directors, and could it have something to do with his suggestion that the company change its name to 'Titter'?  All this and more in this episode.