Thinking Morality Alone. Blue Hedgehog Thistle, Echinops ritro 'Veitch's Blue', Prinsentuin, Groningen, The Netherlands
It was something of a memorial traveling up to Groningen and walking - now alone - in the Prinsentuin, that exquisite pearl of gardens in the heart of Stad. This wonderful Imperial Purple-Blue Thistle, Echinops ritro 'Veitch's Blue', about to blossom, lifted my spirits. And I thought of the wise words of that grand philosopher-emperor Marcus Aurelius (121-180) in his Personal Notes, usually called his Meditations, Book 6, 39. I quote the Greek in tribute to my erstwhile rose-loving classicist companion:
Οἷς συγκεκλήρωσαι πράγμασι, τούτοις συνάρμοζε σεαυτόν, καὶ οἷς συνείληχας ἀνθρώποις, τούτους φίλει, ἀλλ ἀληθινῶς.
Freely paraphrased: 'Learn to accept what fate has brought you and love the people whom fate has put on your path'.
We talked often about this perambulating in the shady berceaux.
What more can I say?
Thinking Morality Alone. Blue Hedgehog Thistle, Echinops ritro 'Veitch's Blue', Prinsentuin, Groningen, The Netherlands
It was something of a memorial traveling up to Groningen and walking - now alone - in the Prinsentuin, that exquisite pearl of gardens in the heart of Stad. This wonderful Imperial Purple-Blue Thistle, Echinops ritro 'Veitch's Blue', about to blossom, lifted my spirits. And I thought of the wise words of that grand philosopher-emperor Marcus Aurelius (121-180) in his Personal Notes, usually called his Meditations, Book 6, 39. I quote the Greek in tribute to my erstwhile rose-loving classicist companion:
Οἷς συγκεκλήρωσαι πράγμασι, τούτοις συνάρμοζε σεαυτόν, καὶ οἷς συνείληχας ἀνθρώποις, τούτους φίλει, ἀλλ ἀληθινῶς.
Freely paraphrased: 'Learn to accept what fate has brought you and love the people whom fate has put on your path'.
We talked often about this perambulating in the shady berceaux.
What more can I say?