JRA when it occurs to me that one day I’ll grow to frail to lift and/or ride this bike. I mean, and that’s the aspired for IDEAL, right? Memento mori, kids. In all things. Make this your best day.
Tag Archives: Stoicism
The Obstacle is the Way
Sometimes, the obstacle is the way. Went out way finding this past long weekend and passed some tests. @spoke_n_words here, getting on with getting on. Ride bikes.
On Reverence for the Natural World
“Implements, tools, equipment. If they do what they were designed for, then they work. Even if the person who designed them is miles away.
-Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (Gregory Hayes translation, 2002)
But with naturally occurring things, the force that designed them is present within them and remains there. Which is why we owe it special reverence, with the recognition that if you live and act as it dictates, then everything in you is intelligently ordered. Just as everything in the world is.”