Daniel Hudon | The Smart Set https://www.thesmartset.com A magazine of arts & culture from Drexel University Fri, 23 Feb 2024 19:23:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 The Tree of My Life https://www.thesmartset.com/the-tree-of-my-life/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-tree-of-my-life https://www.thesmartset.com/the-tree-of-my-life/#respond Thu, 21 Sep 2023 11:30:00 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=61559 Once in a lodge in a forest a day’s drive from where I live in the great metropolis of Bostonia, where the hobgoblins, trolls, and grandmother-eating wolves had long since been scared away and only the mosquitoes lingered to protect the trees, I read about the era not long ago when the eastern white pine […]

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]]> https://www.thesmartset.com/the-tree-of-my-life/feed/ 0 Retracing His Steps https://www.thesmartset.com/retracing-his-steps/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=retracing-his-steps https://www.thesmartset.com/retracing-his-steps/#respond Mon, 20 Mar 2023 11:30:00 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=59676 It was not yet my birthday, but it might as well have been, for I was swerving through the hillside farmlands and quiet Welsh towns in the late winter sunlight on my way to Laugharne to see the poet’s boathouse and breathe the seaside air that infused his words. Laugharne of the old castle and […]

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]]> https://www.thesmartset.com/retracing-his-steps/feed/ 0 Black Holes in the Time of Coronavirus https://www.thesmartset.com/black-holes-in-the-time-of-coronavirus/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=black-holes-in-the-time-of-coronavirus https://www.thesmartset.com/black-holes-in-the-time-of-coronavirus/#respond Thu, 11 Feb 2021 12:30:00 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=52808 Black holes are prisons of light. They are both metaphor and physical entity, mute commentary on what is known, unknown, and unknowable. Well-studied but poorly understood, like a virus. What happens gravitationally if you squeeze the mass of an object to a point? This was Karl Schwarzschild’s question while stationed at the Russian front of […]

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]]> https://www.thesmartset.com/black-holes-in-the-time-of-coronavirus/feed/ 0 Horns of a Dilemma https://www.thesmartset.com/horns-of-a-dilemma/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=horns-of-a-dilemma https://www.thesmartset.com/horns-of-a-dilemma/#respond Thu, 16 Jan 2020 12:30:42 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=50084 I imagine a rhinoceros. A gray hulk standing in the South African savannah, with a massive, brooding head and wary eyes, the horn a perfect mathematical curve sharp enough to slice the wind, one of nature’s great achievements. I can’t hold the image for long because it is soon replaced by another rhino in Kenya […]

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]]> https://www.thesmartset.com/horns-of-a-dilemma/feed/ 0 Climbing Brandon https://www.thesmartset.com/climbing-brandon/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=climbing-brandon https://www.thesmartset.com/climbing-brandon/#respond Mon, 28 Jan 2019 14:24:07 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=41695 I wound up hiking Mt. Brandon by accident. But it is an accident in the same way a traveler stumbles on ruins he didn’t know he was looking for. On Ireland’s Dingle Peninsula, they say you don’t get lost, you discover. And wherever you go, someone has been there before, walking. So it was with […]

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