“I love you terribly.”
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Saturday, May 11, 2019
“I love you, terribly.”
What Toni-Lee said by way of apology to begin our coffee moment the morning after last night’s tense moments between us.
The more pedestrian, “I’m sorry,” how I began mine.
During an apologetic explanation, we each learned to list all the reasons that made our comments or actions wrong; to abstain from diminishing the apology with exculpating comments.
We learned that it is the injured party’s job to accept the apology by defending the one we love by offering all the reasonable mitigating circumstances of the apologist’s actions.
Everybody wins and the breach is healed.
We learn in time that everybody does or says hurtful things.
Bad behavior is not unique to any individual.
How we handle ourselves after the fact that distinguishes ourselves one from another.
We must all learn how to apologize and Toni-Lee’s opening not a bad place to begin:
“I love you, terribly.”
We’ll have a lot of rainy days coming at us. But Saturday looks like God’s gift. Drawn down every last second of it.
For the rest of the week, let’s not skip a single step because of the weather.
The hours are ticking away and if we don’t make the most of our time another day will soon click past.
Unnoticed.
Unappreciated.
Tick Tock.
In clock language:
Enjoy today.
Enjoy the week.
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Postings Count, Weather Brief, and Dinner
Saturday, May 11, 2019
Our 400th consecutive posting, committed to 5,000.
After 400 posts we’re at the 8th percentile of our commitment, the commitment a different way of marking the passage of time.
Time is 12.01am.
On Saturday, Boston’s temperature will reach a high of 68* with a feels-like of 68* under sunny skies. Wow!
Dinner tonight is leftovers from Friday night’s dinner party which featured roast turkey.
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Question of the Day:
Who was Socrates?
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Saturday, May 11, 2019
Love your notes.
Contact me at domcapossela@hotmail.com
This from Sally C, in response to the post: “The barista is an artist. Not one who dabs on brick or wood, but an artist.”
Macchiato: well-made
So deliciously mind-bending
Dear Dom,
Do, indeed, take umbrage, and make sure that the coffee shop is aware of it.
I am no expert, or even amateur, on coffee and its proper preparation for a perfect cup, but no matter what it is, if you are paying a first-quality price for a first-quality experience and product - an expertly and artistically brewed cup of a specific breed of coffee, in this case - you have the right to receive a product prepared by an expert/artist.
The kind of money charged in such high-specialty places affords them the means to employ qualified personnel.
Sally
Web Meister Responds: I have reason to believe that the Blue Bottle café at the Pru uses a full-time barista and the occasion of my poor coffee not the norm. We’ll see. Meanwhile, thanks for the encouragement.
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Chuckle for Saturday, May 11, 2019
Ladies, don’t forget the jumble sale.
It is a good chance to get rid of those things not worth keeping around the house.
Bring your husbands.
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Answer to the Question of the Day: Saturday, May 11, 2019
Who was Socrates?
Socrates, (Ancient Greek: c. 470 – 399 BC) was a classical Greek (Athenian) philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, and as being the first moral philosopher, of the Western ethical tradition of thought.
An enigmatic figure, he made no writings, and is known chiefly through the accounts of classical writers writing after his lifetime, particularly his students Plato and Xenophon.
Other sources include the contemporaneous Antisthenes, Aristippus, and Aeschines of Sphettos. Aristophanes, a playwright, is the only major source to have written during his lifetime, though a fragment of Ion of Chios' Travel Journal provides important information about his youth.
Plato's dialogues are among the most comprehensive accounts of Socrates to survive from antiquity, though it is unclear the degree to which Socrates himself is "hidden behind his 'best disciple'".
Through his portrayal in Plato's dialogues, Socrates has become renowned for his contribution to the fields of ethics and epistemology.
It is this Platonic Socrates who lends his name to the concepts of Socratic irony and the Socratic method, or elenchus.
Socrates exerted a strong influence on philosophers in later antiquity and in the modern era. Depictions of Socrates in art, literature and popular culture have made him one of the most widely known figures in the Western philosophical tradition.
A marble head of Socrates
Sting
I keep a copy of Plato’s dialogues for reading whenever I feel the need to learn about Socrates.
____________________________________________Good Morning on this Saturday, the eleventh day of May, 2019
Our homily reminds us to lean to apologize: an art we all need far too often.
We posted the weather and date and tracked the number of postings.
We posted a letter from Sally C and a cute joke.
And the question and answer reminded us of Socrates.
And now? Gotta go.
Che vuoi? Le pocketbook?
See you soon.
Your love.