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The Garden Path

The Garden Path

One hundred and eight illustrated limericks describing the path of spiritual awakening.

2022

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Burton Voorhees, Linda Voorhees (Illustrator)

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Burton Voorhees

Commentary on The Garden Path: Chapter 2: Verses 9–12

We’ve found the secrets of the Potter, Gained wisdom from Heaven’s Daughter. In spite of all gains The question remains, Are we lambs…

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Commentary on The Garden Path: Chapter 2: Verses 9–12

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Commentary on The Garden Path: Chapter 2: Verses 5–8

Sorting chaff to find the wheat, Seeking in each face I meet A guide I can trust To burnish the rust… Can I be trusted not to cheat?

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Commentary on The Garden Path: Chapter 2: Verses 5–8

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Commentary on The Garden Path: Chapter 2: Verses 1–4

(Note: All comments are partial, provisional, and may not always.)

6 min read6 days ago

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Commentary on The Garden Path: Chapter 2: Verses 1–4

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Burton Voorhees

Meditation on Sound. 2: Robbie Basho

Robbie Basho was the most intense and personal of the 1970–80s singer-songsters. He worked to make the steel strung twelve string guitar a…

1 min readJun 3, 2024

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Was the Trojan War More than a Ten-Year Squabble Over a Woman?

In popular imagination the Trojan War began when prince Paris of Troy kidnapped Helen, the wife of Menelaus, King of Sparta. In some…

12 min readMay 27, 2024

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Was the Trojan War More than a Ten-Year Squabble Over a Woman?

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Commentary: The Garden Path. Chapter 1, Verses 9–12

Some who died before our time Dreamt dreams magnificent, sublime. But they never expressed The love in their breast — Their corpses…

3 min readMay 19, 2024

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Commentary: The Garden Path. Chapter 1, Verses 9–12

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Commentary: The Garden Path. Chapter 1, Verses 5–8

Life’s fatal fact won’t go away But fantasy keeps fear at bay. In dreams I’ll forget All fright and all threat, To wish away the…

4 min readMay 17, 2024

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Commentary: The Garden Path. Chapter 1, Verses 5–8

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Commentary: The Garden Path Chapter 1, Verses 1–4

This is the first of a series of comments on Part I of my book The Garden Path. Part I consists of nine chapters, each containing a dozen…

5 min readMay 15, 2024

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Commentary: The Garden Path Chapter 1, Verses 1–4

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Finding the WOW Behind the WOO

Counterfeit can exist only because there is real gold. Jalauddin Rumi

7 min readMay 13, 2024

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In the Footsteps of Achilles

This piece was suggested by thoughts on the essay From Ancient to New Stoicism — Stoic Logic, by Figs in Winter [1].

5 min readApr 28, 2024

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In the Footsteps of Achilles

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Burton Voorhees

Burton Voorhees

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Emeritus professor of mathematics, Athabasca University. Current research in cultural evolution and history of science. Recent publication: The Garden Path.

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