Stop wandering about!

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Happy new year to my family and friends and to the interweb's blogosphere!

This is a great message from Marcus Aurelius to start off the new year:

Stop wandering about! You aren't likely to read your own notebooks, or ancient histories, or the anthologies you've collected to read in your old age. Get busy with life's purpose, toss aside empty hopes, get active in your own rescue - if you care for yourself at all - and do it while you can.

Love and peace - Wozza

Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel (The Doors)

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School is back in session for Term 2, and it's crazy busy with a headlong rush. At the moment I'm doing my job plus another's for this first week, so the blog has fallen behind.

Yesterday, I couldn't resist temptation and kicked a football, hard, into the goal while the boys set up for a game of indoor football. Felt good at the time, but, was a bad move as it turned out. My back has been in a precarious state since moving all my records last June (MRI, bone scan shows potential need for surgery).

So, last night was a painful one.

Marcus Aurelius can always be relied upon for a sense of perspective during such times.

Enough of this miserable, whining life. Stop monkeying around! Why are you troubled? What’s new here? What’s so confounding? The one responsible? Take a good look. Or just the matter itself? Then look at that. There’s nothing else to look at. And as far as the gods go, by now you could try being more straightforward and kind. It’s the same, whether you’ve examined these things for a hundred years, or only three.

Love and peace - Wozza.

Smoke and dust, the stuff of simple myth trying to be legend (Marcus Aurelius)

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I rarely get deep and meaningful on this blog but I do start each day from that position. As part of my morning routine I read the daily entry in three deep and meaningful and cool books.

As long-time readers know, one is Venerable Master Hsing Yun's 366 Days With Wisdom. The other two are The Daily Stoic and 365 Days With The Saints.

Interestingly, they often coincide in their foci. Seldom all three, but very often two of the three focus on the same theme or idea.

Today Yun and the stoics were looking at the concept of legacy.

Marcus knew that no matter what we do when we're alive, it's like building a castle in the sand, soon to be erased by the winds of time.

Happily, Hsing Yun points out that a legacy is not necessarily something visible, solid or valuable to be left behind but by living well and enjoying the brief time we have and not being enslaved to emotions that make us miserable and dissatisfied, we can still leave behind our humane spirit and wisdom to our future generations (as Marcus has done, and, maybe, just maybe, this weblog).

Love and peace - Wozza