The Leaves Are On The Ground
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Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast. Designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues: courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom. Into the real world. The leaves are on the ground. You can see it happening.
to the trees, you can feel it in the air. It's fall. This doesn't just mean festivals and markets, family pictures and perhaps depending on what country you live in, Halloween or Thanksgiving or some other holiday. It doesn't just mean yard work, raking those leaves, prepping the lawn for winter, planting bulbs for spring. Doesn't just mean sweaters and rain boots.
It means that another season has come and gone, and Means another season of your life has come and gone. Marcus Aurelius in Meditations talks about olives falling right from the tree onto the ground. Talks about them decaying and going back into the earth. This was a metaphor he taught for us.
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