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Took a walk along the road that goes around the Monastery.\u00a0 A beautiful day with a blue sky and sun.\u00a0 The sun has, like me, been on retreat this last week, and it seems to have returned bright and shiny, ready to get on with its job of sending us truly elemental energy.<\/p>\n
While walking, I talked to Kate.\u00a0 Cell phone reception is fine outside the Monastery, but inside, nada.<\/p>\n
It’s rare for a person to find someone whose life and lifestyle fit so well as Kate and mine do.\u00a0 At least I think it’s rare.\u00a0 We both enjoy time alone and we enjoy being together.<\/p>\n
She says the plants, the dogs and herself are doing well.\u00a0 The dog are outside and\u00a0 have been nearly all day.\u00a0 She’s been sewing and made grandson Gabe a new shirt, this one with trains.<\/p>\n
Today I finished writing early, still putting out about 6,500 words.\u00a0 I tried to go further but the well was dry so I’ve been reading Conspirata, the Robert Harris novel about Cicero’s Consul\u00a0 year and his life immediately after.\u00a0 Cicero is a favorite of the conservative classes, but he seems more pragmatic than conservative, at least as Harris portrays him.\u00a0 It might be his deep suspicion of populist politics that gains their favor, but that seems more complicated in this fictional biography.<\/p>\n
Just as I was in a Chinese phase last summer, I’m in a Roman phase right now, learning Latin, reading Roman novels, translating Ovid.<\/p>\n
If our plans for a fall cruise congeal, at some point I imagine I’ll turn toward South America and its ancient and contemporary history.\u00a0 Read a few travel books on various ports of call.\u00a0 We’re leaning toward a 37 day cruise that starts in NYC and ends in Rio, passing through the Panama Canal and traveling around South America through the the Straits of Magellan and Cape Horn to Buenos Aires and Rio.<\/p>\n
My lunch table\u00a0 today had Hoosiers, monks from South Bend, north Terre Haute and Indianapolis.\u00a0 We talked about the old home place, Wabash College, Indy, the crazy time change rules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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