An advertisement-free blog about motorcycling, Northern life, home improvement, power plants, submarines, nuclear stuff, and a few other off-beat subjects. Comments are welcome. (Image is the Selway Crags in Northern Idaho)
"Forget everything else.
Keep hold of this alone and remember it: Each of us lives only now, this brief instant.
The past has been lived already, and the future is impossible to see.
The span we live is small - small as the corner of the earth in which we live it.
Small as even the greatest renown, passed from mouth to mouth by short-lived stick figures, ignorant alike of themselves and those long dead." - Marcus Aurelius
"Fate leads the willing and drags along the reluctant." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Your happiness depends on three things, all of which are within your power: Your will, your ideas concerning the events in which you are involved, and the use you make of your ideas." - Epictetus
"True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Life is neither good nor evil, but only a place for good and evil." - Marcus Aurelius
"The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie." - Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth" - Marcus Aurelius
"Think of yourself as dead.
You have lived your life.
Now, take what is left, and live it properly.
What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness." - Marcus Aurelius
Accompanied by thunder, lightning, and some light showers. Sat outside under the overhang and enjoyed the wind, weather, and the show.
