The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems, the thoughts, the reviews, the photos, the paintings and the cartoons The Ovi covers for Friday January 5th, 2024
Meditations upon bidding farewell to another tumultuous year, after reading Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations by Dr. Azly Rahman
My quiet fourteen days leading to the New Year were spent watching a few movies, listening to my vinyl LPs, doing some house-cleaning and furniture rearranging, figuring out where to relocate my thousands of books I have collected over a decade, and reading. I managed to finish Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations to learn about the philosophical world of one of the greatest Roman emperors and its only philosopher-ruler. Meditations consist of notes the Stoic philosopher wrote, not intending to have them published. This is the beauty of the collection of words and passages of wisdom: narrative of one who has the power and the wisdom to govern the monumental Roman Empire.
I yearn to see in our world today more leaders behaving like philosopher-rulers rather than tyrants, thieves, and murderers.
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eBook: Father Brown: The song of the flying fish by G. K. Chesterton
Mr. Peregrine Smart’s hired hands guard his expensive ornamental goldfish bowl with fish made of gold and rubies for eyes. Boyle and Jameson hear a bump in the night. While Jameson runs downstairs, Boyle looks out the window to see the apparition of a man singing a strange song calling forth “his fish”. The window breaks and the fish are gone.
Father Brown on his 13th adventure.
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2nd opinion, quarantined! 24#001 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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