Today's Meditation(s): Musonius Rufus, Lecture 3.7 I Iove that my wife is smarter than I am. And she's handier, too. We study philosophy and psychology together, though not what I do for this blog. This is separate. I love that she understands my Stoicism and its philosophical foundations. (That she knows about those who sell stoicism as a way to 'get ahead in life' or who leave out the commitment to community and the drive to be more virtuous rather than simply more veneered in a warped form of 'success.' She recognizes the difference between that and the philosophy as found in the extant writings.) I love that she cares about being a good person and holds that as a priority for our children, just as I do. I cannot imagine wanting her to be any less intelligent, wise, or capable than she is. Why on Earth would I possibly want that?!

Today's Meditation(s):  Musonius Rufus, Lecture 2.4 Virtue is natural to humanity, but must be trained as any skill or art. "My old man told me one time, You never get wise, you only get older." ~The Dandy Warhols, Big Indian (2000) As I told my child, this is only true if I let it be true. I may not make much progress on my road to wisdom, but I will at least learn of my faults and fallacies, assumptions and assheadedness. Now I have a list of things to fix. That's better than many. Wisdom can be trained. Follow Nature. Use reason. Focus on what is up to me. Keep it simple. Use wisdom, justice, temperance, and courage to pursue virtue. Do the next right thing. Amor fati.