A Deal Me In catch-up post
Hello again! Hope anyone who is reading this is doing well and, if it's winter where you are, staying warm. :) I was off to a good reading start this year, but the last month has been nothing short of hectic. My excuse this time is I've been mentoring young programmers on a local robotics team, gearing up for a big competition next month. Between work during the day and robots in the evening, reading was pushed to the back burner. However, the bulk of our programming is completed, and now we can kick back a little and I can (hopefully) find time to read again. I'm actually on track with Deal Me In; I've just not blogged regularly. Here are the stories I've drawn for the last month or so (and yes, diamonds keep randomly showing up!). Q ♣ Circles This essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson is probably quintessential Transcendentalist reading. In "Circles," Emerson encourages the reader to look at life in the form of circles - Venn diagrams, really. He suggest