A young woman in a pale silk dress and a light veil, seated barefoot on a dark red cloak.
Henriette de France as a Vestal · Jean-Marc Nattier, c. 1749 · Detroit Institute of Arts 43.417

In Plato’s Phaedrus the gods ride out across the sky in a long procession.1 Hestia stays home.

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Focus is Latin for “hearth”. In 1604 Kepler borrowed it for the point where a lens gathers light.Eat one meal this week sitting down, with the screens off.

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1 Plato, Phaedrus 247a