230430 What I learned in my studies this morning 3

Aligned by Nature,

With Nature, naturally.

It flows. It just is.

Thoughts:

"No. She's not black. She's not like that. Her mind's not black. Her soul's not black. She's a midnight blue. She's of the night, but she's not the night. But she thrives in the dark. But she's not black."*

A great friend of mine is doing some work for me. Today is a beautiful day so he's over here with his daughter and her friend and they're helping him. 

Meanwhile, I'm hearing him talk with them. How much he loves them in how he speaks with them. The things they talk about — import things like law and legality and morality — and how he's demonstrating for them, living, the principles he wants them to know. And they're good principles. Like Antoninus, he is a Stoic philosopher not by study, but by nature.

Today's Meditation:

Today's Meditation II:

Today's Meditation III:

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* NOTE: The question was "What color are they?" as in "What color describes you? What color reminds me of you?" i.e. "You're green. Definitely a nature person." or "You're yellow. Always sunny and warm and cheerful." THAT sort of "black." I'm worried that someone reading this will mistake a beautiful bit of poetical description as somethings negative or as about race. It wasn't. That's not what this was. It was sweet and full of love.