On”Do what nature demands. Get a move on – if you have it in you – and don’t worry whether anyone will give you credit for it. And don’t go expecting Plato’s Republic; be satisfied with even the smallest progress, and treat the outcome of it all as unimportant.” – Marcus Aurulius
Stoicism and Christianity started at roughly the same time. I embrace stoicism not as a rejection of Christianity, but because it completes the story for me. Merry Christmas – and Memento Mori.
“Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes angry.” — Euripides Commuting was never my thing, but sometimes you’ve just gotta do what you’ve gotta do. When I was not very much younger, I used to grow angry at the neat rows of brake lights in front of me. Likewise, a red light when…
“It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.” — Rumi When you break down distances into bite-sized chunks, they don’t seem all that bad. To walk 250 miles over the course of roughly two months I needed to average 35 miles per week,…
To be great, be whole;Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you.Be whole in everything. Put all you areInto the smallest thing you do.So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendorBecause it blooms up above.— Fernando Pessoa, Poems of Fernando Pessoa An early morning. Out the door long before the dawn brought me deep…
“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.” — Rabindranath Tagore As spring usually goes this time of year in recent years, we seemingly went right from winter to summer, fooling the daffodils and hyacinth into blooming quickly, lest they…
Standing watch at the Mouth of the Merrimack River is Red # 2. Red # 2 is a navigational buoy that rides out some of the most violent conditions on the East Coast. Red # 2 is not as well known as MR, which is the first red navigational buoy on the approach to the…