Modern man is very interested in productivity and the fruits thereof, which generally requires on his part a great deal of doing.  But does doing produce what civilized men through the ages have called Culture?  Or does Culture arise from reflections born of the simple act of being, and the not so simple act of contemplation which it allows?  Come to discuss the right relationship that a man ought to have between doing and being, which is to say, between his work and his leisure – and what he ought to make of each.

After having been graduated summa cum laude from Yale College in 1997, with a very practical degree in economics (though having read far more in history, philosophy, and theology), Thatcher corrected the mistake of his upbringing in Philadelphia by moving to Boston, where he shall reside until the end of time, or at least as close to it as he can come.  Upon moving to Boston, Thatcher took a job with Bain & Company for two years, where he consulted, then Bain Capital for ten, where he invested in stocks, and has claimed retirement from things pecuniary since 2008, despite looking after money for a goodly number of charities.  When not looking after money for charities, Thatcher often finds himself looking after them in other ways;  he sits on twenty-some sundry boards and committees, including Episcopal church-related, educational, musical, and ancestral, plus a few he surely cannot remember at any given moment.