Morning - a time for breaking ground
People who love what they do
wear themselves out doing it.
That is a quote from Marcus Aurelius' Meditations (translated by Gregory Hays).
It is from the dairy (kept by Marcus for Marcus) of one of the most powerful men in the world. It's from a rather interesting longer segment (which I will post more of when I can find it) on how he motivates himself to get out of bed in the morning.
..how the guy at the top of the ladder finds reason to roll out of his warm bed and rule an empire...
I wonder what it's like to be somebody like him.
I also wonder (aside from the specific tasks) if I would notice much difference.
(I cannot let a date like 7/2/7 go by without a post as a time stamp.)
(And! Welcome back to Reed, Darrell F. Shroeter. I don't know if I've ever understood so much of a Physics talk. Except for possibly the time that Nick presented on something that only people in his P200 class were familiar with.)
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I just discovered (23:50 on 2/08/07) that it has been three years and one day since 'Morning - a time for breaking ground' first appeared in one of my notebooks.
Thank you, Harry Chapin
for offering me a sustaining phrase.
Harry Chapin
Let Time go Lightly
I let time go lightly when I'm here with you,
I let time go lightly when the day is through.
I keep a watch on time when I've have work to do,
I let time go lightly with you.
Morning, a time for breaking ground and sowing seeds,
and yet we give up our sunshine
so we can buy what we need.
That leaves the evening, to share a fire with a friend or two,
to lose sight of the hours
To go lightly with you
I let time go lightly when I'm here with you,
I let time go lightly when the day is through.
I keep a watch on time when I've got work to do,
I let time go lightly with you.
Old friends, they mean much more to me than the new friends,
Cause they can see where you are,
and they know where you've been.
Music, has been my oldest friend, my fiercest foe,
cause it can take me so high,
(High.....) Yes it can make me so low.
When I was a child my mother would help me along
She'd rock me to sleep and sing me a song.
So I learned to love the music of all the tunes in my mind
the changing of chords, the rhythm of time.
I let time go lightly when I'm here with you,
I let time go lightly when the day is through.
I keep a watch on time when I've got work to do,
I let time go lightly with you.
Yes I let time go lightly with you, and a fire, and a friend or two
With you and a fire and a friend or two
A friend or two and you
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