If you desire many things, many things seem but a few. – Benjamin Franklin
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Month: March 2026
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If you’d be belov’d, make yourself amiable. – Benjamin Franklin
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Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble. – Benjamin Franklin
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“You are not your body and hair-style, but your capacity for choosing well. If your choices are beautiful, so too will you be.” —EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 3.1.39b–40a
Holiday, Ryan; Hanselman, Stephen. The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living (p. 87). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
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Attended concert by Amythyst Kiah
Went to Library of Congress with Y. see to Amythyst Kiah. Good performer, not a great songwriter IMO.
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The unrestricted person, who has in hand what they will in all events, is free. But anyone who can be restricted, coerced, or pushed into something against what they will is a slave.” —EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 4.1.128b–129a
Holiday, Ryan; Hanselman, Stephen. The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living (p. 81). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
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We can remove most sins if we have a witness standing by as we are about to go wrong. The soul should have someone it can respect, by whose example it can make its inner sanctum more inviolable. Happy is the person who can improve others, not only when present, but even when in their thoughts! —SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 11.9
Holiday, Ryan; Hanselman, Stephen. The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living (p. 80). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
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Don’t suffer imagined troubles. – Ryan Holiday
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Listen and connect with people, don’t perform for them. – Ryan Holiday
Holiday, Ryan; Hanselman, Stephen. The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living (p. 76). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
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“So, concerning the things we pursue, and for which we vigorously exert ourselves, we owe this consideration—either there is nothing useful in them, or most aren’t useful. Some of them are superfluous, while others aren’t worth that much. But we don’t discern this and see them as free, when they cost us dearly.” —SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 42.6
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Philadelphia Flower Show
Drove up to Philly for the flower show, March 2nd. Stayed downtown Marriot, parked a Arch St. V and S came too.
Show was fantastic, as expected. Worth the time and effort.
Ate at Veda, an modern Indian restaurant. Food was good, service terrible. Also at a Maggiano’s an Italian chain. Ok.
by David McCullough
Good read. Quick history the first year of the Revolutionary War.
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Attended Philadelphia Flower Show
Attended the Philadelphia Flower Show on Monday, March 2nd. Stayed two nights at the Downtown Marriott. V and S came with us.
Ate at Veda, a modern Indian restaurant. Food was ok, service terrible. Also ate at Maggiano’s, a chain Italian restaurant. Not terrible.
The 2026 PHS Philadelphia Flower Show, themed “Rooted: Origins of American Gardening,” runs from February 28 to March 8, 2026, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center