Thoughts Before Baby Two

Thoughts Before Baby Two

We have our second child coming. My thoughts before their arrival. Philosophical and practical.

Meditation 3.4 of Marcus Aurelius

Do not waste the remainder of your life in thoughts about others…

Meditation 2.5 of Marcus Aurelius

Every moment think steadily as a Roman and a man to do what you have at hand with perfect and simple dignity, and feeling of affection, and freedom, and justice…

Meditation 2.1 of Marcus Aurelius

Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busybody, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial. All these things happen to them by reason of their ignorance of what is good and evil. But I who have seen the nature…

No Country for Old Men

The importance of greeting one another. Why we no longer say hi and bye. Why we should bring it back.