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Weather: After 2:00 pm, there is a 30% chance of showers and thunderstorms. It’s hot and sunny, with a high of almost 95.There is a 30% chance of showers and thunderstorms on Friday night, mostly before 8 p.m. With a low of about 77, it is mostly transparent.
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Following FlaglerLive Editor Pierre Tristam’s Reality Check, Free For All Fridays with Host David Ayres, an hour-long public affairs radio program that features local newsmakers, personalities, public health updates, and the odd surprise guest, begins just after 9 a.m.View earlier podcasts here. at 1550 AM, 94.9 FM, and live on Flagler Broadcasting’s YouTube channel on WNZF.
Washington Oaks Gardens State Park, 6400 North Oceanshore Blvd., Palm Coast, hosts first Friday garden walks at 10 a.m. Every month on the first Friday, go on a garden stroll with a Ranger. Explore the formal gardens and discover Washington Oaks’ history. It takes around an hour to walk. There is no need to register. The park entrance price includes the walk. The Garden parking lot is where participants gather. With a $5 per vehicle paid access charge to the state park, the event is free. (Maximum 2–8 passengers per car.) $4 for a car with just one occupant. For additional information, contact [email protected] or (386) 446-6783.
At 12:15 p.m., the Flagler Democratic Office, located at 160 Cypress Point Parkway, Suite C214 (above Cue Note) in City Marketplace, hosts the Friday Blue Forum, a discussion group run by local Democrats. Come and contribute your voice to national, state, and local politics.
Notably, in his 2014 hagiographic biography of Napoleon, Andrew Roberts gives us one of those revealing details about Napoleon’s intelligence following his election to the Institute de France. Roberts’ orgy of pre-Trumpian praise and defenses for the Corsican dictator Napoleon was not merely an intellectual among generals; he was a true intellectual. In addition to being a connoisseur, critic, and even amateur theorist of dramatic tragedy and music, he had read and annotated many of the most profound books in the Western canon. He also favored science and mingled with astronomers, enjoyed having lengthy theological conversations with cardinals and bishops, and never traveled far without his extensive, well-worn traveling library. The question is: what the heck? How does intelligence relate to ethics, justice, and morals? I can relate to this quote from Anthony Burgess’ 1985: When he heard his daughter perform a Schubert sonata, a commandant who had overseen the murder of thousands of Jews went home and sobbed with holy ecstasy because music has nothing to do with morality. Alternatively, Omar el Akkad said that the man who shot the young girl might go back to coaching Little League games. Occasionally, the patrol that started shooting at the famished citizens could get together for karaoke evenings. Or this passage from the 1970 short tale Eternal Husband by Dostoevsky: A person with noble feelings is the most terrible of beasts. Ethics are not aesthetics. The way clubbish aristocracy utilize manners as an exclusionary technique and, incidentally, how the right-wing mobocracy attacked Justice Jackson after she used a few colloquialisms in her recent dissents are examples of how aesthetics can and, in my opinion, frequently serve as a disguise for ethics. In his history of the arts, historian Hendrick van Loon posed the question: Is there a genuine relationship between a person’s soul, higher senses, and creative ability? He gave a resounding no.
P.T.
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