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Aug 26, 20221 min read

Thoughts after surgery

Yesterday’s surgery was an eye-opening experience for me on several fronts: first, tackling the onset of my own inevitable bodily...

Sep 10, 20214 min read

STOIC POETRY | Dr. Johnson sights The Great Indifference

I am always on the lookout in my reading for evidence of others who have spotted and reported on the quality of nature which I found in...

Sep 9, 20213 min read

STOIC POETRY | The past is in the possession of death

Death possesses us piecemeal. We are taken slowly, day by day, hour by hour, and across every minute of our life. We start dying the...

Sep 7, 20212 min read

STOIC POETRY | When yesterdays are nevermore

There is this folly, Eric, by which we wait to live until death has nearly arrived. The habit begins young, when mortality seems a...

Sep 6, 20214 min read

STOIC POETRY | My dead companions

I've formed a small association of companions Eric, of whom I know you would approve. Sadly, like you, they are all dead and I must...

Aug 21, 20213 min read

STOIC POETRY | indifferentia

I met a new word today... A very interesting word, to be sure. This new vocabulary for me is indifferentia. I found this word while...

Oct 5, 20201 min read

STOIC POETRY | Trapped

Thinking out loud about those of us who did not pursue our dreams of youth and who are later wondering if there’s any chance of a second...

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