Author: Eddy Young
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Thoughts of Marcus Antoninus Aurelius
I recently finished reading Thoughts of Marcus Antoninus Aurelius, a collection of Emperor Antoninus’s thoughts about Stoic principles. The format of the book is notable in that each ‘thought’ is written in short sentences, sometimes even in just one phrase but rarely more than a few paragraphs. I like the book because it shows a…
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Don’t have floorboards in the kitchen, they said
Shortly after buying our house we went shopping for decoration materials. We wanted floorboards in all the rooms on the ground floor so that it was a seamless polished wood surface from the front door all the way into the kitchen at the back. That wish went against the general wisdom of not laying wood…
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Vaccinated. But safe?
So this is it. I’ve had my second shot of the AstraZeneca vaccine. Let’s hope it works and continues to work against new variants.