renaissance, nascent, Shakespeare, journals in Seattle

readingthedictionaryztoa.blogspot.com
glennlouisfeole@gmail.com

 Other blogs:
artbyglennfeole.blogspot.com
sweetsilentsessions.blogspot.com (essays on Shakespeare)

renaissance (Latin  re - again, nasci to be born) a period in Europe from the 1300’s to the 1600’s, beginning in Italy.  It bridged the period from Medieval times to modern times and saw the rejuvenation of humanistic pursuits; a flourishing of the arts and literature.  Literally a ‘re-birth.”’ 

     Similary, nascent means a rebirth, a re-emerging. 

    I am reading all of Shakespeare now and am in mourning that I have come to my last play;  Shakespeare wrote in the late 1500’s and into the beginning of the 1600’s…a renaissance of literature and also my own personal renaissance/re-birth of my passion for literature.   Who among us is not striving for a renaissance of our spirit, our heart, our intellect?  

     For me, my sojourns during travels nominally to pediatric conferences culminates in days and nights of walking the cities and gardens of Portland, Seattle and San Francisco with a book and 

a journal in my backpack, in search of that spark that re-ignites my soul.