Christopher Hurtado's Commonplace Blog

Commonplaces from The Love Poems of Rumi by Nader Khalili

Posted on October 7th, 2020

this love journey is surely the hardest and most twisted road I have taken I began the journey but my heart is sti...

Commonplaces from For Now (Why I Write) by Eileen Myles

Posted on October 5th, 2020

There are writers I know who never tell anyone when they travel that they are writers. People say what do you write. ...

Commonplaces from Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow

Posted on September 19th, 2020

Even amid the trips escapist pleasures, George had a conspicuous habit of improving himself, turning everything into ...

Commonplaces from The Conference of the Birds by Farid Attar

Posted on September 15th, 2020

Introduction FARID UD-DIN ATTAR, the Persian mystic-poet, was born during the twelfth century at Neishapour (where O...

Commonplaces from Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman

Posted on September 12th, 2020

EN Self-restraint Compassion Adept Inept motere move e- away Two minds: Thinking head rational Feeling heart emot...

Commonplaces from “Why Stillness is Essential: Ryan Holiday | Rich Roll Podcast”

Posted on September 11th, 2020

And addicts by their nature are control freaks and they, you know, have strong opinions about how they see the world ...

Commonplaces Merton’s Palace of Nowhere by James Finley

Posted on August 30th, 2020

We can now say that a more specific purpose underlying this book is that of prayerfully exploring Mertons critically ...

Commonplaces from The Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell

Posted on August 24th, 2020

Perhaps it will be objected that in bringing out the correspondences I have overlooked the differences between the va...

Commonplaces from The Plot Thickens by Noah Lukeman

Posted on August 21st, 2020

Unfortunately, though, knowledge or education is often confused with enlightenment, wisdom, or realization. One can f...

Commonplaces from Bodas de Sangre by Federico García Lorca

Posted on August 19th, 2020

Vale mas ser muerto desangrado que vivo con ella podrida. 145
Christopher Hurtado

Christopher Hurtado has over twenty-five years' experience teaching a broad range of subjects. He is self-taught in the classics, holds a Bachelor's in Middle East Studies/Arabic and Philosophy from Brigham Young University, and an MA in Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. He is a serial entrepreneur with startup and takeover/turnaround experience in various industries. He has varying degrees of fluency in twelve languages and has lived and traveled abroad extensively. He lives in Mapleton, Utah with his wife, Alysia, and their children.