Talking Tuesday: Marcus Aurelius' Meditations

Book 4:49~

"Be like a rocky promontory against which the restless surf continuously pounds; it stands fast while the churning sea is lulled to sleep at its feet. I hear you say, "How unlucky that this should happen to me!" Not at all! Say instead, "How lucky I am that I am not broken by what has happened and am not afraid of what is about to happen. The same blow might have struck any one, but not many would have absorbed it without capitulation and complaint."

~Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Hicks and Hicks translation, 2002

NB: I have a different translation from 1962 at home, but I prefer the Hicks' rendering of this passage; it is more poetic than the one I have.

It's Alive!

Popping in here briefly to say, I'm still here, just drowning in life with three teenagers and a tween.  My life preserver at the moment is my writing and associated reading, but that means I have little time to write here.  I have some projects from the spring to share, now the weather is turning, but that will have to wait.  I had a great season with both gardens and am sliding into the fall with them, thinking about what I will do with them in the cooler weather.  Again, will post more about that later!