<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[My Site 2]]></title><description><![CDATA[My Site 2]]></description><link>https://www.the-luminist.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 22:51:14 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.the-luminist.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Why Study Art?]]></title><description><![CDATA[I met Socrates in his final moments on the wall of the Met. The 71-year-old man sitting before me was a spectacle indeed: 30 days earlier an Athenian jury had decided, 280 to 221, to convict the old philosophically-bearded man, the thinker that had so distinctively and defiantly defined Western thought and brought many an aspiring sage to Athens’s marble doors. David’s masterful technique intrigued me. I became curious as to how art could animate a story, how it could elucidate history in a...]]></description><link>https://www.the-luminist.com/post/_about</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a7e477a1edc2c80bd353754</guid><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 22:40:59 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3e9a3f_7f86af6cbd0c494c90a686070a60b8d9~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Anna Jackson</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>