Mother’s Day 2022 combobulation. I began this year with a desire to comment on the daily stoic quotes. But, in February, I took on a website design project that has been holding my attention. I want to post some sort of acknowledgement that it’s Mother’s Day. But, that’s not entirely true. I’d really just like […]
It was such a good intention. Spend a few minutes each day while I’m combobulating with a cup of coffee and respond to a quote. Then I went at got obsessed with website code. Reading dry, technical books. Cramming my brain with commands and concepts. Keeping a narrative log to update the friend whose idea […]
p. 39 “Don’t return to philosophy as a task-master, but as patients seek out relief in a treatment of sore eyes, or a dressing for a burn, or from an ointment. Regarding it this way, you’ll obey reason without putting it on display and rest easy in its care.” – Marcus Aurius, Meditations, 5.9 This […]
I allowed myself to become distracted by yet another project, so the days slipped too far away in my daily stoic meditations. Option one, long session to catch up the 15(!?) days I’ve missed. Option two, disregard the dates at the top of the pages and just continue on. Option two it is. Page 38 […]
“At every moment keep a sturdy mind on the task at hand, as a Roman and human being, doing it with strict and simple dignity, affection, freedom, justice — giving yourself a break from all other considerations. You can do this if you approach each task as if it is your last, giving up every […]
“Take a good hard look at people’s ruling principle, especially of the wise, what they run away from and what they seek out.” — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 4.38 It occurs to me that I haven’t looked up to many role models during my life. There was, for a period of time during my early teens, […]
Yikes! I’ve got a bit of catching up to do after the New York interlude (which went well as far as we know). Quote summaries that I missed: First Day: Reflect. Second Day: Rich people still put their pants on one leg at a time. Third Day: Don’t learn things half-assed. Read thoroughly and to […]
“Your principles can’t be extinguished unless you snuff out the thoughts that feed them, for it’s continually in your power to reignite new ones…. It’s possible to start living again! See things anew as you once did — that is how to restart life!” — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 7.2 There is another quote for today. […]
Whoa. I didn’t think that many days got away from me. The prompts are dated, and I have a bit of OCD in things like this, so prepare for a quote blast: XIII. “We control our reasoned choice and all acts that depend on that moral will. What’s not under our control are the body […]
“For if a person shifts their caution to their own reasoned choices and the acts of those choices, they will at the same time gain the will to avoid, but if they shift their caution away from their own reasoned choices to things not under their control, seeking to avoid what is controlled by others, […]
Justin vs. the Existential Dragon 