Happy New Year one and all!
Here’s a bit of Stoic thought to help keep a perspective on reality…
“Let death and exile, and all other things which appear terrible, be daily before your eyes, but death chiefly; and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.”
– Epictetus
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A further thought with regard to death… Life is like a roll of toilet paper. That is, the closer you get to the end, the faster is goes. -JB
George,
I have to chuckle at your post. I needed about a week to finish my trapping vardo and was working vigorously on it to head to Nebraska trapping critters right after Thanksgiving. . Something wasnât quite right I felt. Cardiologist was called they did a heart cauterization Nov 24th. On Nov 28th I underwent a quintuple heart bypass. The vardo came to a screeching halt……
Attached is a photo as it sets!
Get well and get healthy. Photo didn’t attach.
Good words George, keep first things first, always.