“As the proverb says, men cannot know each other until they have eaten salt together.”
–Aristotle

We don’t need the latest study to show us that we are losing the ability to live in communion, even with those closest to us. And not only does this problem start in our homes, it grows there.  …

The rest of this reflection in preparation for Thanksgiving is posted at The Blog of the Institute of Family Studies.

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John Cuddeback
John Cuddeback
John A. Cuddeback is a professor and chairman of the Philosophy Department at Christendom College in Front Royal, Virginia, where he has taught since 1995. He received a Ph.D. in Philosophy from The Catholic University of America under the direction of F. Russell Hittinger. He has lectured on various topics including virtue, culture, natural law, friendship, and household. His book Friendship: The Art of Happiness was republished in 2010 as True Friendship: Where Virtue Becomes Happiness. His writings have appeared in Nova et Vetera, The Thomist, and The Review of Metaphysics, as well as in several volumes published by the American Maritain Association. Though raised in what he calls an ‘archetypical suburb,’ Columbia, Maryland, he and his wife Sofia consider themselves blessed to be raising their six children in the shadow of the Blue Ridge on the banks of the Shenandoah. At the material center of their homesteading projects are heritage breed pigs, which like the pigs of Eumaeus are fattened on acorns, yielding a bacon that too few people ever enjoy. His website dedicated to the philosophy of family and household is baconfromacorns.com.

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  1. Just salt? In one of my Anki card decks of Russian phrases there was one about bread and salt. That led me to learn about the custom of offering salt and bread as a rite of hospitality. You can read about it on wikipedia or see it occasionally in Russian movies. The last couple of movies in which I can remember seeing it were comedies based on mistaken identities.

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