Day Two Hundred and Thirty-Two
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius Page: 272
Another good day for the page count. Yay! I might actually catch up…if this trend continues that is.
Ahh…the Stoics. Good old Marcus Aurelius. He is so fascinating to read and important too but he kinda makes me want to go out and indulge in all my favorite parts of creation. Chocolate, coffee, wine, filet mignon, silk, truffles, old leather bound books. I do think that there is a lot of wisdom in this little book and although I’ve read it twice now, I still need to study it a bit more to glean the bits of gold. I’ll be saving further details until book club night since most (all?) of my book club reads my blog at least occasionally.
I can scarcely believe how many more dishes are dirtied each day just because we are home. HOLY CRAP! I have to do them twice a day. Of course I hate a messy kitchen, so while I would just let them build up before, when we were gone all the time, I really can’t stand to do that now. I would so love a dishwasher right about now…
See. If you had let me refuse a cool beverage yesterday you would have had one less glass to wash!
August 20th, 2008 | #
I love the part where he complains about getting out of bed in the morning.
August 20th, 2008 | #
Good luck with Marcus. He’s an extraordinary thinker - he’s really encapsulated 500 years of Greek thinking into a few fairly short meditative exercises - thoughts that are very similar to Buddhism. My favorite - and it captures Stoicism in a nutshell: “If it is not right, do not do it; f it is not true, do not say it.”
Thanks for the Blog post. No - you are not nuts; you are doing what you must do.
August 20th, 2008 | #
So how is the page count now compared to say two months ago when you were working too? Compare the numbers for me…!
Way to Go!!!
August 20th, 2008 | #
You don’t need a dishwasher! You have me when I get pissed off
And you get to hear me rant at the same time so I am social interaction and dishwasher all in one
August 22nd, 2008 | #