November 2024 Reading
Purgatorio- Dante (1321) Continuing through Purgatorio Canto 5 Ante-purgatory: the late repentant, who died by violence Dante and Virgil continue through the landscape climbing at the base of the mountain.
Purgatorio- Dante (1321) Continuing through Purgatorio Canto 5 Ante-purgatory: the late repentant, who died by violence Dante and Virgil continue through the landscape climbing at the base of the mountain.
Purgatorio- Dante (1321) Having finished the Inferno, I’m starting into Purgatorio. While Heaven and Hell are attested to in the Bible, there isn’t really anything about
This would be our last day in Boston and I didn’t have really anything on the agenda. Decided we’d wander around the north end, Boston’s
Watched the sunrise again from the hotel bed, then went out to breakfast at The Well, which looked to be a non-profit, Christian-owned coffee shop.
Sunrise could be seen from our hotel window, overlooking the city and out over the airport and harbor. Headed out to breakfast at the Boston
We were hoping we’d be able to see the sunrise from our hotel room, but we were both up early, so we decided to head
After breakfast at The Bean and Bakery coffee shop, we hit the road to drive to Portland, Maine, about 2 and a half hours away.
The rain had cleared and we finally had a really great view across Lake Champlain, exposing just how great the sunset would have been the
We packed up early from the hotel, headed over to Story and Soil coffee for breakfast, and then headed north to Montpelier Vermont. From Hartford,
In the morning, after some sunrise pics… we headed a little south to Warwick so we could eat at this old-school diner, Johnny’s Chalet, known
“I have more intellectual pursuits, and less intellect with which to pursue them.“
This website was formerly “the TL;DR place” on tumblr. But I occasionally posted things that I wanted others to see, and they were unable to access the content without tumblr accounts. I called the blog the TL;DR place because the writing I do here is essentially a place for me to process through my thoughts. Most of my friend group isn’t all that interested in the same things, so I write rather than talk through it.
The domain name is a play on my name: David Laurance. David is of Hebrew origin and means something like “beloved”, and my middle name “Laurance” is derived from the name of a great aunt “Laura” back somewhere in the ancestry. The male equivalent is Lawrence, or Larry…. so… “beloved Larry” > everyone loves Larry.