There's a different particular and bittersweet ache to loving people across multiple time zones.

My oldest granddaughter is leaving New York the city that gave her ambition a place to run, for California, the state that gave her breath. He employer is sending her home, in a way, though home for her was never really one fixed point on a map. She was born under those western skies, and now she returns to them, not as the infant she was, but as a woman with a career and a future the state seems eager to claim back.

Ir's alive.

These two pets belong to completely different animal groups, but try telling them that.

Marcus Aurelius's Meditations offers timeless Stoic wisdom on controlling your mind, accepting fate, and focusing on personal virtue rather than external events.

Key Quotes on Life and Stoicism

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Senate panel votes to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress over invoking the Fifth Amendment in a hearing on Covid
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