Leopold
This is Leopold. He was stationed at Maine’s Fort Knox. The only fort I’ve ever visited with a library and a reading room.
Other troops were sent there a few times in history. But they elected to camp outside the fort. There were so many places for cannons. And no cannons were ever sent to the fort.
This fort was built years too late. To combat a threat long past. It’s best seen from across the river, as it sits on a hillside.
Young’s Lobster Pound
No lobster roll today.
Whale watching trip was cancelled due to rain.
Puffin trip cancelled due to lack of puffins.
As solace, I direct you to The Bucket List for 2.
Prepared at Young’s Lobster Pound. Where we passed many a lobster and crab.
And when my number was called, I Rose to receive this menagerie from under the sea (and corn).
It was as good as it looked. And we left a large pile of mussels and clams to a very large family(?) party at a nearby table.
Simple Stoicism
Good post on Stoicism – canion.me I found from a comment on Potatowire’s site
Boiling it down
The easy 1, 2, 3 of stoicism may be presented as:
If you can change it, it doesn’t deserve your worry. Go ahead and make the change. Just do it!
If you can’t change it, it doesn’t deserve your worry. You can’t fix it, so why stress?2
If you worry about it anyway, you are simply inviting it to tyrannise and traumatise you, indefinitely. Rumination is the worst.
Simple Stoicism.
